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Academia is the game where you gain status by getting attention for new knowledge

People keep track of their ‘score’ in citations, published papers, grant money, awards.

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People and organizations are all playing some game that has different ways of gaining status and power

§Academia Constraints

The peer review and citation system incentivizes people to work on things that other people think is interesting

§Institutions and Games

Successful professors are not necessarily the best researchers

Academic research is often just the concept half of creating a heuretic

All institutions are coupled to at least one game

Motivation is not context-free

Human capital theory of stagnation

Research requires intrinsic motivation

Bottling Lightning