Ben Reinhardt
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1/ Recently finished "Where’s my Flying Car - A memoir of Futures Past" by J Storrs Hall. It's simultaneously extremely critical of the state of atom-based technology and presents a
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One like = one opinion (+reason) about Elon Musk.Took the @vgr bait to do a one-opinion-per-like personal challenge. Live-fire stress test of your brainstorming capacityhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1206123389351366657 1. We should strive
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The Szilard point - when more value is wasted applying for a grant than the value of the grant From "Problems With Peer Review And Alternatives" by
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1/ It's crazy how much WWII and its aftermath shaped our current research system and its associated incentives: grants, patents, and power. This letter from Sen. Kilgore illustrates how they
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Realization: There are secretly three kinds of experts:1. Experts with Power2. Experts with Platform3. Experts with Proficiency Ideally “Experts” are 1+2+3 but that’s often not the case. Hence arguments over
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