Ah, but part of my point is that they’re inextricably linked—at least for pre-paradigmatic research that requires creativity and don’t have cheap empirical-legible measures of progress. Shorter legibility loops puts a heavy tax on the speed of progress, at least for the top of the competence distribution. I can’t make very general claims here given how different research fields and groups are, but I don’t want us to be blind to important considerations.
There are deeper models behind this claim, but one point is that the “legibility loops” you have to obey to receive funding requires you to compromise between optimisation criteria, and there are steeper invisible costs there than people realise.
(I’m only trying to talk about feedback here as it relates to research progress, not funding etc.)
Ah, but part of my point is that they’re inextricably linked—at least for pre-paradigmatic research that requires creativity and don’t have cheap empirical-legible measures of progress. Shorter legibility loops puts a heavy tax on the speed of progress, at least for the top of the competence distribution. I can’t make very general claims here given how different research fields and groups are, but I don’t want us to be blind to important considerations.
There are deeper models behind this claim, but one point is that the “legibility loops” you have to obey to receive funding requires you to compromise between optimisation criteria, and there are steeper invisible costs there than people realise.