One of the best feelings in the world is to find someone thinking about exactly the same things as you at exactly the same time but further along. Then you get to see into the future, only its a different future where you are also a different person that can see the problem in a different way than you can. It seems like the healthy response is to want to talk to that person and hear what they think and tell them what you think, since you are both thinking about the same things.
How sad is it that many of our friends in academia feel exactly the opposite: you need to constantly be watching out for someone thinking about the same things as you to beat them, cut them down, or coopt them. The last thing you would do is talk to them, because they might "steal" your precious ideas.
The prestige cult is depressing, and if that's an inroad to help our colleagues help themselves to not do DoD supersoldier research or pay for another RELX/ICE surveillance apparatus it seems worth taking
jonny (nonvenomous)
@jonny@neuromatch.social
