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oh i like this one a lot, especially @3blue1brown.com 's commentary on credit and ownership and, approximately, meaning-making it resonates with a central conflict i have with society; y'all way too into 'status' and 'credit' and it's a wonder anything useful ever gets done in that context

idk i think it’s pretty load-bearing that a portion of the population is motivated to work insanely hard for something as cheap as “credit”/“status”

it probably is! i still think it's bad. i also don't think those are cheap, at scale. it's cheap for the university exploiting i mean assisting the individual researcher, but said researcher will often turn it into...idk if this is a word, but, soft-capital, post-haste

like how many dinners do we think erdos paid for, yknow?

you go to war with the incentives you’ve got, not the ones you want

like, arguably if math lacked names-on-papers, we don't get erdos (he'd verbally disagree iirc, but we'll pretend for the point). i'd like to think that over a relatively similar timeline a lot of the same discoveries happen but for different purposes; just love of the game type-shit

FLOSS bodes well there; we do have a school of (applied) math that is driven neither by credit-per-se nor money if we do well to provide for more people, maybe that still gets us starbound