But what actually happens is you do something you read in a paper, then you fail, get super frustrated, publish a paper titled “Doing X doesn’t lead to Y”, and several people suddenly start telling you they all knew that but never bothered to tell anyone.
Normalize and incentivize publishing negative results!!
That’s like 3/4 - 7/8 of science, the being wrong part!
Normalize and incentivize publishing negative results!
+ Normalize and incentivize attempting to replicate existing findings!
With these two recommendations we’d speed up discovery exponentially.
Big respect to the McBriens of the world, your lit reviews make a lot of things easier
Pro- and anti-Chomsky’s Universal Grammar papers were flamewars and a touchstone of mine for a while.
(Everett convinced me Chomsky might be wrong).
Not sure if you’re still into it, and if you knew this already, but I’m name-dropping “Constructive Grammars” as an interesting thing
