If inefficient thought or action results in revenue-generating work, then the system will incentivize inefficiency.
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- the-duopoly-enshrines-state-persistence
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Related: scientists are incentivized to bring in the most money. Large experiments get bigger grants (and schools take about 50%-80% off the top). Theoreticians can often help forego large experiments by doing good theorizing (“we probably don’t need to look for Effect X because it seems to be impossible for it to come out of System Y”), but this is a lost revenue opportunity for the university. It would be better for the experimentalists to have “inefficient thought”, rather than “efficient thought” increasing-the-inefficiencies-of-a-system-is-often-a-way-to-keep-it-profitable
- impossible-problems-bad-incentives-broken-systems
- Perverse Incentives