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		Haga on May 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A new replication crisis: Research that is less li... Startups have misaligned incentives in a monopoly ruled world? Build a thousand messenger variations to get acquired by Facebook, comes to mind. So economic thinking might be harmful here?

mixmastamyk on June 1, 2021 | [–]

Your comments are mostly dead. I didn't see anything wrong with them in a cursory glance.

eru on May 22, 2021 | [–]

Why? If that's what society values, that's what society gets. Who are we to judge?

A 0.1% chance to build an app that's gonna be useful to hundreds of millions of people is better than what most career scientists manage.

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