Incentives in Academic Research(msoos.org)
43 points by zero_k | 39 comments
A blog post on the SAT solving and cryptography blog 'Wonderings of a SAT geek' discussing how incentives shape behavior in academic research.
#incentives on Hacker News
4 stories tagged incentives, newest first.
Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)(sohl-dickstein.github.io)
706 points by feyman_r | 298 comments
Blog post by Jascha Sohl-Dickstein arguing that excessive optimization for proxy measures worsens outcomes, linking Goodhart's law to overfitting in machine learning.
Suspicious discontinuities (2020)(danluu.com)
462 points by explosion-s | 240 comments
Dan Luu essay examining suspicious discontinuities in data, such as income subsidy cliffs, and the perverse incentives that sharp thresholds create.
Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution(effectiviology.com)
1513 points by walterbell | 1032 comments
Effectiviology article explaining the Shirky Principle, the idea that institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.