asr comments on Division of cognitive labour in accordance with researchers' ability - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 16 January 2014 09:28AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 16 January 2014 04:45:51PM 2 points [-]

it would be more conducive to science to give people the security to think in quiet by guaranteeing them a basic livelihood.

Isn't that precisely what tenure is?

Comment author: Creutzer 16 January 2014 06:38:01PM 4 points [-]

Well, tenure is something that guarantees a livelihood to some allegedly existing academics over 45 years of age... Everybody else has to live on temporary positions.