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>Right now we have huge overhead in training and communication. Low s/n ratio follows. You can fix that gatekeeping science a bit better - pick more talented, better educated, harder working candidates, and train & finance & supply them better.

None of that. A lottery of everyone who can pass a minimum literacy exam in their field.

Looking at the luminaries of any field to a very good approximation none of them are "more talented, better educated, harder working candidates", in fact being lazy, combative and self taught is usually a better predictor for ground breaking discoveries. The people who you would pick are already the ones in academia and they are the ones who created the replication crisis.



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