I agree there’s a risk of overemphasizing fast-feedback loops that damages science.
My current belief is that gaining research taste (or b is something that shouldn’t be that mysterious, and mostly it seems to be something that
does require quite a bit of effort (which is why I think it isn’t done by default)
also requires at least some decent meta-taste on how to gain taste (but, my guess is Alex Altair in particular has enough of this to navigate it)
And.. meanwhile I feel like we just don’t have the luxury of not at least trying on this axis to some degree.
(I don’t know that I can back up this statement very much, this seems to be a research vein I currently believe in that no one else currently seems to)
It is plausible to me (based on things like Alex’s comment on this other post you recently responded to, and other convos with him) that Alex-in-particular is already basically doing all the things that make sense to do here.
But, like, looking here:
But I think it’s a careful balancing act, and I worry that putting too much pressure on speed and legibility is going to end up causing people to do science under the streetlight. I really do not want this to happen. Field founding science is a bunch weirder than normal science, and I want to take care in giving research taste enough space to find its feet.
I think the amount I’m pushing for this here is “at all”, and it feels premature to me to jump to “this will ruin the research process”.
I agree there’s a risk of overemphasizing fast-feedback loops that damages science.
My current belief is that gaining research taste (or b is something that shouldn’t be that mysterious, and mostly it seems to be something that
does require quite a bit of effort (which is why I think it isn’t done by default)
also requires at least some decent meta-taste on how to gain taste (but, my guess is Alex Altair in particular has enough of this to navigate it)
And.. meanwhile I feel like we just don’t have the luxury of not at least trying on this axis to some degree.
(I don’t know that I can back up this statement very much, this seems to be a research vein I currently believe in that no one else currently seems to)
It is plausible to me (based on things like Alex’s comment on this other post you recently responded to, and other convos with him) that Alex-in-particular is already basically doing all the things that make sense to do here.
But, like, looking here:
I think the amount I’m pushing for this here is “at all”, and it feels premature to me to jump to “this will ruin the research process”.