# Einstein would have been stuck in a patent office - failures of paradigm-shifting science “Einstein would have been stuck in the patent office” is in part driven by how [[Competition and lack of slack creates specialization]] and how grants and peer review increase the barriers keeping people within discipline buckets. [[The peer review and citation system incentivizes people to work on things that other people think is interesting]]. ### Related * [[We have no flying cars - failures of paradigm-shifting engineering]] * [[Many things cannot be measured well]] * [[Organizations run by practitioners have less bureaucratic bs]] * [[To make new things you need to take risks]] * [[People giving out grants try to derisk them as much as possible]] * [[The idea that academia is for crazy exploration and companies are for low risk exploration is bullshit]] * [[Do weird stuff with tenure pledge]] * [[Making a game more fair reduces its variance]] * [[Structuring knowledge is expensive]] * [[Making a game more fair reduces its variance]] * [[Research has become a commodity]] * [[Einstein would have been stuck in a patent office - failures of paradigm-shifting science]] * [[We need more scientific artifacts than papers]] * [[A system of credit and funding for non-Scientific Paper artifacts should be artifact-type agnostic]] * [[A system of credit and funding for non-paper artifacts could be a trust network]] ### References * [[bhattacharyaStagnationScientificIncentives2020]] * [[odlyzkoDeclineUnfetteredResearch1995]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Einstein+would+have+been+stuck+in+a+patent+office+-+failures+of+paradigm-shifting+science) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Einstein+would+have+been+stuck+in+a+patent+office+-+failures+of+paradigm-shifting+science)