DavidAgain comments on LW should go into mainstream academia ? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DavidAgain 14 May 2015 09:30:58PM 1 point [-]

I think this is the vital thing: not 'does academia work perfectly', but 'can you work more effectively THROUGH academia'. Don't know for sure the answer is yes, but it definitely seems like one key way to influence policy. Decision makers in politics and elsewhere aren't going to spend all their time looking at each field in detail, they'll trust whatever systems exist in each field to produce people who seem qualified to give a qualified opinion.