Episode 04: Joel Lehman, OpenAI, on evolution, open-endedness, and reinforcement learning
Generally Intelligent
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The Cardinal Sin of a Senior Researcher
I think it's a total failure of the scientific system. The incentive system of science seems to elevate the contribution of the senior researcher over that of first author, in many contexts. It just seems in many cases unfair. I wish it wer better. Cal basically, i'm really glad you mention that there is differently a lot of issues with power structures and ecademia. That seems like a good idea for do at least all the time, to give explicit lit these contributions of each authors. Yeon: There ware't any potential downfalls if we thought through any potential downsides on our own. If people feel they can ape experiences where they felt like they had to do certain things
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