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ESRogs comments on Problems with Academia and the Rising Sea - Less Wrong Discussion

28 Post author: JonahSinick 23 May 2013 07:17PM

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Comment author: ESRogs 24 May 2013 01:08:27AM 4 points [-]
  1. Any improvement will be supported by good researchers but opposed by poor ones, the latter outnumber the former.

Only if the poor researches actually anticipate doing worse under the new system. It's possible that a system could be better for everyone (e.g. if it required less grant-proposal-writing and more science-doing).