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godelskitoday at 3:34 AM1 replyview on HN

Sure. You can't write to everyone and there's tradeoffs to broadening your audience. But I'm also not sure what your point is. That people are arrogant? Such variety of backgrounds can also be fertile ground for collaboration. Something that should happen more often


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jltsirentoday at 4:27 AM

As a gross simplification, there are two kinds of fields. Some are defined by the methods they use, and some by the topics they study.

The latter will use any methods that may yield results. That creates a problem. The people who are in the target audience for a paper and may try to replicate the results often fail to do so, because they lack the expertise. Because their background is too different.

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