On a different track: I’d love to have better incentive structures for all sorts of things. Philosophers writing only for other philosophers is probably too inbred of a memetic environment. We want ethicists of education, for example, to not merely be producing papers that other ethicists of education like to cite, we want them (where saying “them” is a bit misleading, since making this transition probably requires a lot of job turnover) to be improving our education system by doing ethical work that educators and administrators are already faced with, in ways that have a feedback loop due to having to having to be useful to real educators. But we have a second-order incentive problem, where the education system itself doesn’t have sterling incentives (or the healthcare system for bioethicists, etc), and also it’s just plain hard to tell what’s actually useful, so there are still antisocial incentive problems. Anyhow, in terms of how much money that takes, we’re talking “take over the academic administrative, funding, and publishing systems of a major country and somehow buy enough soft power to make them do things that will cost the jobs of many entrenched academics” kind of money.
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On a different track: I’d love to have better incentive structures for all sorts of things. Philosophers writing only for other philosophers is probably too inbred of a memetic environment. We want ethicists of education, for example, to not merely be producing papers that other ethicists of education like to cite, we want them (where saying “them” is a bit misleading, since making this transition probably requires a lot of job turnover) to be improving our education system by doing ethical work that educators and administrators are already faced with, in ways that have a feedback loop due to having to having to be useful to real educators. But we have a second-order incentive problem, where the education system itself doesn’t have sterling incentives (or the healthcare system for bioethicists, etc), and also it’s just plain hard to tell what’s actually useful, so there are still antisocial incentive problems. Anyhow, in terms of how much money that takes, we’re talking “take over the academic administrative, funding, and publishing systems of a major country and somehow buy enough soft power to make them do things that will cost the jobs of many entrenched academics” kind of money.