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Toynbeeideatoday at 6:46 PM1 replyview on HN

The same incentive there always was: Because you wanna know. What incentive were you thinking of?


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kccqzytoday at 6:58 PM

The usual incentives in academia: publishing papers. Consider the difference between publishing a paper that introduces a novel method to do X, versus publishing a paper that merely interprets Claude’s method to do X. The latter might not even be publishable.

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