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People and organizations are all playing some game that has different ways of gaining status and power
Many things cannot be measured well
DARPA Program managers have a tenure of four to five years
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The returns to politics is higher at large organizations - Stake v Rank
Organizations can get incomes via Contracts, budgets, or products
Academics are incentivized to do peer-reviewed publishable work
DARPA’s aversion to people with a web presence may be how they avoid asymmetric career risk
The idea that you need to make a lot of money in software before you can work on sweet sci fi shit is false
Experience does not mean expertise
National Labs don’t foster efficient or long term research
Is it possible that we’re actually getting less research because we have more researchers?