I’m pretty uninformed on the object level here (whether anyone is doing this; how easy it would be). But crazy-seeming inefficiencies crop up pretty often in our fallen world, and often what they need is a few competent people who make it their mission to fix them. I also suspect there would be a lot of cool “learning by doing” value involved in trying to scale up this work, and if you published your initial attempts at replication then people would get useful info about whether more of this is needed. Basically, getting funding to do and publish a pilot project seems great. I’d recommend having a lot of clarity about how you’d choose papers to replicate, or maybe just committing to a specific list of papers, so that people don’t have to worry that you’re cherry-picking results when you publish them :)
I’ll probably write a proposal in the next week or so and test the waters.
Obviously everything would have to be published in the open. I feel pretty strongly about all GitHub commits being public and I think there are other things that can be done to ensure accountability.
People who are potentially interested in helping can email me at zroe@uchicago.edu.
I’m pretty uninformed on the object level here (whether anyone is doing this; how easy it would be). But crazy-seeming inefficiencies crop up pretty often in our fallen world, and often what they need is a few competent people who make it their mission to fix them. I also suspect there would be a lot of cool “learning by doing” value involved in trying to scale up this work, and if you published your initial attempts at replication then people would get useful info about whether more of this is needed. Basically, getting funding to do and publish a pilot project seems great. I’d recommend having a lot of clarity about how you’d choose papers to replicate, or maybe just committing to a specific list of papers, so that people don’t have to worry that you’re cherry-picking results when you publish them :)
I’ll probably write a proposal in the next week or so and test the waters.
Obviously everything would have to be published in the open. I feel pretty strongly about all GitHub commits being public and I think there are other things that can be done to ensure accountability.
People who are potentially interested in helping can email me at zroe@uchicago.edu.