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Conor's avatar

Heyo, sorry I just subscribed so not sure if you already addressed this, but could you say more about how this effort fits into the wider ecosystem of outside-academia science? What might your ideal projects look like?

It seems some of your focus is on meta science and theorizing?

There are already numerous hobbyist and interest groups publishing research, from

Native plant societies to coral-growing aquarists. There are self-experimenters and the quantified self community. There are various community or citizen science projects. There is science fair science, often overlooked and weirdly relegated to children. Related, there are creative side projects and Ignoble science. Then there is Twitter theorizing, and of course a wide array of blogs.

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erg art ink's avatar

In the max dash to collect and retain eyeballs, it seems everything is being likened to war, and no one wants to lose. Dead ends have become too risky, or too expensive to explore. Results, profit, and the win have captured the popular imagination. Not just science. We have all become hostages to profit.

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