I think that the fact that they are technically separate people just makes it more likely for this to come into play. If it was all the same people, they could simply choose the best contribution of AI and be done with it, but they have the same setup, pressures, and general job, but have not themselves honored AI yet… and each wants to make their own mark.
I do think this is much more likely the reason that the physics one was chosen than chemistry, but it does show that the pressures that exist are to honor AI even when it doesn’t make sense.
I do think it often makes sense to model organizations as if they individuals that respond to their collective incentives regardless of what the people actually doing it may be thinking. If the parts are separate enough, it may make more sense to model each part as an individual. Any pathology an individual can have, a group can too, even if that group has exactly zero people with that actual pathology involved.
I think that the fact that they are technically separate people just makes it more likely for this to come into play. If it was all the same people, they could simply choose the best contribution of AI and be done with it, but they have the same setup, pressures, and general job, but have not themselves honored AI yet… and each wants to make their own mark.
I do think this is much more likely the reason that the physics one was chosen than chemistry, but it does show that the pressures that exist are to honor AI even when it doesn’t make sense.
I do think it often makes sense to model organizations as if they individuals that respond to their collective incentives regardless of what the people actually doing it may be thinking. If the parts are separate enough, it may make more sense to model each part as an individual. Any pathology an individual can have, a group can too, even if that group has exactly zero people with that actual pathology involved.