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idk i think it’s pretty load-bearing that a portion of the population is motivated to work insanely hard for something as cheap as “credit”/“status”

26/10/26, 11:35 pm0 reposts13 likes

it probably is! i still think it's bad. i also don't think those are cheap, at scale. it's cheap for the university exploiting i mean assisting the individual researcher, but said researcher will often turn it into...idk if this is a word, but, soft-capital, post-haste

like how many dinners do we think erdos paid for, yknow?

i don't think it will be easy or cheap to replace these systems; hitting them with an explosive for twitter clout was probably not a great idea on the part of The Labs. but i'm conceptually happy to see them start to fall apart

you go to war with the incentives you’ve got, not the ones you want

i do wonder what the next world looks like, and don't want to guess at it, but i have high hopes that low-credit personas turn out to be similarly productive to high-credit personas, but more diffusely as is our nature

the big breakthrough of “capitalism” is that it channels human greed towards the project of delivering goods and services at scale at the lowest-possible price. another way of spinning straw into gold