I am presently employed as a researcher at a major university. Do you know what I’ve worked on in the last year? Do you think anyone on the Internet does?
No, among other reasons because I don’t know who you are and because I don’t give a damn. But it took me less than an hour to find out what the LW basilisk was about.
If a scientist (read: professor or grad student at a university in almost all cases) wanted to keep a finding secret, they could trivially do so.
Well, if you don’t tell anyone else and don’t publish it anywhere, you could trivially keep anything secret. But then, why would anyone bother to research such stuff in the first place? (Other than personal benefit, I mean.)
Well, if you don’t tell anyone else and don’t publish it anywhere, you could trivially keep anything secret. But then, why would anyone bother to research such stuff in the first place? (Other than personal benefit, I mean.)
This is the scenario I’m talking about.
Presumably, if you found yourself in a field where you constantly couldn’t publish things because of your consequentialist ethics, you’d switch fields (or ethics).
No, among other reasons because I don’t know who you are and because I don’t give a damn. But it took me less than an hour to find out what the LW basilisk was about.
Well, if you don’t tell anyone else and don’t publish it anywhere, you could trivially keep anything secret. But then, why would anyone bother to research such stuff in the first place? (Other than personal benefit, I mean.)
This is the scenario I’m talking about.
Presumably, if you found yourself in a field where you constantly couldn’t publish things because of your consequentialist ethics, you’d switch fields (or ethics).