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Has everyone just realized the extreme -EV nature of discussing advanced concepts in a public forum?


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When i first read this statement i got angry and wanted to write a long post about how awful this thinking is. But after thinking about what i wanted to say, i'm actually wondering the same thing myself.

I would have thought that working out the math and writing software to solve hands would work much better in an open public forum (much as sharing ideas in an academic setting is useful). But the catch seems to be the freerider problem whereby very few ppl are taking the time to work out the problems but any lurker gets to benefit from the results. It gets frustrating so eventually the ppl doing the hard work get sick of sharing results. Of course when they don't share the results with a sufficiently large audience, the results are less legitimate and lower quality.

Perhaps the solution is smaller working groups where if ppl don't pull their weight they get cut?