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# Open Research

Category: [[organizing-research|Organizing Research]]

[Read the original document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w5-Tch0NDw4ppl-ydHhwZj96y43P-dyMfSdWop0XIno/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076446000&usg=AOvVaw2YFVe5fU1XwmVVtqRn-O2O)

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1. Networked Science
   1. Polymath project for research ideas
      1. Check out Trask’s thing?
      2. Check out Francois’s thing?
2. Crowdsource research ideas
3. Crowdsource experiment ideas
4. Code in open-source notebooks
   1. Build on people’s research literally as they’re doing it
5. Publicize the idea you’re working on
6. Maintain lists of people interested in a research frontier that’s constantly updated with the day’s research (notebooks, new ideas, etc.)
7. Creating superorganisms - 
   1. Communication paradigm in orgs
8. Create a layer over arxiv that lets people record notes on the page
   1. Chrome extension?
   2. Org specific, say everyone in brain / deepmind?
9. Close off research inside of brain / deepmind from the external community
10. Wikipedia for research in each subdomain, with detailed topics
   1. Use real wikipedia for this, with intentional contributions

Question foundational assumptions:
How would you act if there was no incentive structure?
How would you act if reputation didn’t matter?
How would you act if your only priority was the accomplishment of valuable research?

Idea list:
Blockers to scientific progress.
Short term incentives that are blockers to progress.

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*Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w5-Tch0NDw4ppl-ydHhwZj96y43P-dyMfSdWop0XIno/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076446000&usg=AOvVaw2YFVe5fU1XwmVVtqRn-O2O)*