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Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by tvhahn on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:02PM (#29502886)
Balaji Srinivasan had a good take on this recently in his conversation with Tim Ferris. I quote:

"The thing is, I don’t care if something has a thousand retweets, what I care about is if it has two or three independent confirmations from economically dis-aligned actors. This is the same as academia, by the way, everybody’s optimizing citations. What you actually want to optimize is independent replication. That’s what true science is. It’s not peer review. It is physical tests."

Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by czzr on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:12PM (#29503686)
Yes and no. Literal replications are less valuable than people think - what you really want are independent tests of different parts of the causal network of the underlying model.