In science and engineering, people will usually try very hard to make progress by standing on the shoulders of others. The discourse on this forum, on the other hand, more often resembles that of a bunch of crabs in a bucket.
Hmm… Yeah, I certainly don’t think that there’s enough collaboration or appreciation of the insights that other approaches may provide.
Any thoughts on how to encourage a healthier dynamic.
Any thoughts on how to encourage a healthier dynamic.
I have no easy solution to offer, except for the obvious comment that the world is bigger than this forum.
My own stance is to treat the over-production of posts of type 1 above as just one of these inevitable things that will happen in the modern media landscape. There is some value to these posts, but after you have read about 20 of them, you can be pretty sure about how the next one will go.
So I try to focus my energy, as a reader and writer, on work of type 2 instead. I treat arXiv as my main publication venue, but I do spend some energy cross-posting my work of type 2 here. I hope that it will inspire others, or at least counter-balance some of the type 1 work.
Hmm… Yeah, I certainly don’t think that there’s enough collaboration or appreciation of the insights that other approaches may provide.
Any thoughts on how to encourage a healthier dynamic.
I have no easy solution to offer, except for the obvious comment that the world is bigger than this forum.
My own stance is to treat the over-production of posts of type 1 above as just one of these inevitable things that will happen in the modern media landscape. There is some value to these posts, but after you have read about 20 of them, you can be pretty sure about how the next one will go.
So I try to focus my energy, as a reader and writer, on work of type 2 instead. I treat arXiv as my main publication venue, but I do spend some energy cross-posting my work of type 2 here. I hope that it will inspire others, or at least counter-balance some of the type 1 work.