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The Strong Researcher Hypothesis

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There’s a tension between two basic metascientific instincts.

There’s a tension between two basic metascientific instincts. On the one hand, metascience promises that, although scientific and technological progress is wild, powerful, and mysterious, it can be understood deeply enough that we can craft interventions to effectively influence it. Through reforms to scientific publication, changes to granting, and other procedural tweaks, we may be able to accelerate and shape progress. These reforms are built on the idea that by shaping the incentives of researchers, we can shift their decision making calculus in ways that will produce faster progress.…

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