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People create proxy games for long term or hard-to-measure games

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  • IBMs proxy game is publishing patents
  • What are proxy games that lead to more awesome sci-fi shit?

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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

§Institutions and Games

Kumar Types of Games Tweet

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?