In the section Peer Review you describe releasing an article that is 90% correct and then depending on crowd sourcing to advance the 90% to 99%. This may be appropriate if you want to produce an evolving system that values only future goals. Many systems, medicine most prominently, value both current and future targets. You can not mo…
In the section Peer Review you describe releasing an article that is 90% correct and then depending on crowd sourcing to advance the 90% to 99%. This may be appropriate if you want to produce an evolving system that values only future goals. Many systems, medicine most prominently, value both current and future targets. You can not morally release a therapy that is 90% effective when you know 99% is achievable albeit at great cost. To do so makes you a monster like Elizabeth Holmes. Many other (most?) systems besides medicine may resist sacrificing current day performance for future advances. Democracy may be one of them.
In the section Peer Review you describe releasing an article that is 90% correct and then depending on crowd sourcing to advance the 90% to 99%. This may be appropriate if you want to produce an evolving system that values only future goals. Many systems, medicine most prominently, value both current and future targets. You can not morally release a therapy that is 90% effective when you know 99% is achievable albeit at great cost. To do so makes you a monster like Elizabeth Holmes. Many other (most?) systems besides medicine may resist sacrificing current day performance for future advances. Democracy may be one of them.