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260 points the-mitr | 3 comments | 28 Aug 25 04:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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willgax ◴[28 Aug 25 06:11 UTC] No.45048979[source]▶
An individual scientist/researcher (most of them) is in pursuit of truth. Nothing matters, and nothing should matter other than that. For future discoveries, we should make knowledge as accessible as possible. But when an organization forms, it competes for power and superiority. This results in discriminatory actions that cause the overall regression of collective innovation. It is sad to see this happen.
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1. diggan ◴[28 Aug 25 08:20 UTC] No.45049758[source]▶
> An individual scientist/researcher (most of them) is in pursuit of truth.

Maybe I'm in a certain type of bubble, but I kind of feel like that's a secondary goal (for many of them), while the first is finding and keeping a position that lets them earn enough money to survive. Some of them are lucky to be able to do both, but quite a lot of them are sacrificing the "pursuit of truth" because otherwise they wouldn't be able to feed themselves by working as a researcher.

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2. melagonster ◴[28 Aug 25 08:27 UTC] No.45049803[source]▶
Yes, but giving people a dream is a good way to let them look for low salary jobs.
3. willgax ◴[28 Aug 25 10:13 UTC] No.45050410[source]▶
i am not talking about people who just do job to survive there comes a point where you achieve all your needs you need something intangible like pursuit of truth/power/authority to validate your existence. I could blame the people in the institutions, but they were once a student who wanted nothing but to achieve great things, world-changing research. But along the way they tasted power and authority. Science has inherent quality of giving power and control, realizing that every action has consequence, and in this godless world only actions you take matter. If anyone who has experienced the authority knows that it is addictive and it is hard to let go. If anyone (young budding scientists) can challenge that authority you would go to any lengths to prevent that i think this is what is happening here.