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"Let’s say you are designing a research program, and you’re realizing
that the topic you’re hoping to understand is too big to cover in your
lifetime. How do you make sure that people continue your work after
you’re gone?"
Interesting analysis of the problems of knowledge transfer.
Originally shared by Edward Morbius, who added: "Woozle's Epistemic
Paradox, again:"
If an institution built to transfer a tradition of knowledge gains power
or prestige, it will attract people who want to use the institution for
other purposes than the preservation and development of the tradition.
Once the institution is captured for the power it holds, and the goal of
the organization is no longer to transfer the tradition, the body of
knowledge can easily fail to be transferred. Some types of knowledge are
extremely vulnerable to institutional takeover, e.g. traditions
involving political theory, because every social theory is also an ideology
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