Currents 075: Michael Nielsen on Metascience - a podcast by .

Jim talks with Michael Nielsen about the ideas in his and Kanjun Qiu's recent essay,"A Vision of Metascience: An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science"...
Jim talks with Michael Nielsen about the ideas in his and Kanjun Qiu's recent essay,"A Vision of Metascience: An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science."They discuss the meaning of metascience, a vivid example in Genovese maritime insurance, attracting intellectual dark matter, creation&limitations of the h-index, frozen accidents in our scientific operating system, what allowed the original DARPA to be so productive, funding-by-variance, failure audits, changing the unit of evaluation from papers to software, at-the-bench fellowships, science funders as detectors&predictors, endowed professorships by age 25, eliciting the secret thesis, metascience as an imaginative design practice, bottlenecks to decentralized improvement, the Open Science Collaboration, pre-registered study designs, metascience entrepreneurship, the arXiv preprint server, and much more.

Episode Transcript"A Vision of Metascience: An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science,"by Michael Nielsen and Kanjun Qiu

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Michael Nielsen is a scientist who helped pioneer quantum computing and the modern open science movement. His main current projects are in metascience, programmable matter, and tools for thought.  He is the recent co-author of a book-long essay,"A Vision of Metascience", outlining the ways in which the institutions of science can become self-improving.  All his work is united by a broader interest in tools that help people think and create, both individually and collectively. He is a research fellow at the Astera Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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