when an academic field encounters advanced statistical methods, it becomes really productive for ten years and then bogs down because the practitioners have learned how to game the rules

http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorder/

"Today, we worry about Islamic terrorists. A hundred years from now, we'll worry about Buddhist physicists."

Переведу. Для всех русскоязычных. Чес-слово.

UPDATE: Мысль-то хорошая, да вывод смазан...

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