Note the idea would have come up anyway; this is a pretty core belief of mine, and I believe I was the one to bring it up on the academia post (after which someone linked this post).
Well, to be more accurate, I actually believe a stronger claim than the one in this post, that focuses on imitation as the mechanism for unconscious incentive-following. (Though it looks like comments later made this connection, under the title “cultural learning”.)
(I still think this is a good post and will be voting for inclusion; just wanted to clarify impact)
FYI this post came up in discussions of It’s Not The Incentives, It’s You (as something that might be the main driver for “what’s up with Academia?”)
Note the idea would have come up anyway; this is a pretty core belief of mine, and I believe I was the one to bring it up on the academia post (after which someone linked this post).
Well, to be more accurate, I actually believe a stronger claim than the one in this post, that focuses on imitation as the mechanism for unconscious incentive-following. (Though it looks like comments later made this connection, under the title “cultural learning”.)
(I still think this is a good post and will be voting for inclusion; just wanted to clarify impact)