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One very interesting implication. If this applies to fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology and artificial intelligence it probably applies to any field that is not so diseased that there's no there there. Thus the barriers to going from knowing nothing about a field to being able to write a publishable paper are actually relatively low in quite a few fields, particularly those where you don't need lab equipment or great mathematical sophistication.
Academic paper reading slackers of Lesswrong, to the social science and law paper writing! It'll get you into a good grad school!
I think it would take me a very long time to get good enough at category theory or string theory to publish a paper.
This actually seems unlikely - first year PhD students publish papers in string theory all the time. My guess is that it would suffice for you to have the right conversations with the right people.
Whatever the field, there is probably a lot of perfectly do-able research problems that no-one has yet gotten round to doing. The problem being, of course, that it's pretty hard to recognise which these problems are without having the sort of in-depth knowledge that comes from years studying inside the field.