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How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation - Alexey Guzey

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See discussion on /r/slatestarcodex (a) (25 comments), Hacker News (a) (17 comments), Twitter (1 (a), 2 (a)) (>300 retweets), Marginal Revolution (a) (39 comments) Summary: academia has a lot of problems and it could work much better. However, these problems are not as catastrophic as an outside perspective would suggest. My (contrarian, I guess) intuition is that scientific progress in biology is not slowing down. Specific parts of academia that seem to be problematic: rigid, punishing for …

How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation created: 2019-08-15 ; modified: 2022-01-18 Table of Contents 5 random top posts > Reviving Patronage and Revolutionary Industrial Research > Forecasting humans becoming generally intelligent with biological anchors: year 10,000,000,000,002,022 > A Two sentence Jailbreak for GPT-4 and Claude & Why Nobody Knows How to Fix It > Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors > Is anything inherently difficult? See discussion on /r/slatestarcodex (a) (25 comments), Hacker News ( a ) (17 com

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