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Re:Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Lit... by dluan on Monday May 04, 2015 @05:20PM (#9489286)
Expert generalists are precisely the thing that's missing, especially with how younger scientists are trained. It's harder to fund an expert generalist.

Freeman Dyson is a great example because at 89 he published the solution to the prisoner's dilemma, decades later than the original theoretical physics work.

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Re:Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Lit... by jowiar on Monday May 04, 2015 @06:56PM (#9489781)
The Ph.D. process weeds out anyone who has any desire to become an expert generalist.
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Re:Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Lit... by linhchi on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @02:04AM (#9491083)
> the solution to the PD

Dyson truly proposes a great solution lying in PD. That is a huge oversight for game theorists when they let an outsider do that.

However, it's not the ultimate solution. It's an extremely interesting aspect (a strategy, a style of play) of the PD that game theorists somehow have never seen and articulated in maths.

For the evolutionary fitness of the extortioner solution that Dyson discovers:

Evolution of extortion in Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma games http://www.pnas.org/content/110/17/6913.abstract

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Re:Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Lit... by ThomPete on Monday May 04, 2015 @05:31PM (#9489348)
Exactly!
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