it seemed like the specific proposal here was the scale.
I guess a question here is what the returns-to-scale curve looks like? I’d be surprised if the 501-1000th researchers were more valuable than the 1-500th, suggesting there is a smaller version that’s still worth doing.
I don’t know where this guess comes from, but my guess might be that the curve is increasing up to somewhere between 10 and 100 researchers, and decreasing after that. But also there’s likely to be threshold effects at round/newsworthy numbers?
I guess a question here is what the returns-to-scale curve looks like? I’d be surprised if the 501-1000th researchers were more valuable than the 1-500th, suggesting there is a smaller version that’s still worth doing.
I don’t know where this guess comes from, but my guess might be that the curve is increasing up to somewhere between 10 and 100 researchers, and decreasing after that. But also there’s likely to be threshold effects at round/newsworthy numbers?
That does sound right-ish.