[3grdlurker]

Science discoveries don't just happen because there are more people "competing" to solve a problem. The more likely outcome of what you're saying is that you'd only have more teams competing, sure, but to redo each other's work.

[ALittleLight]

The replication crisis suggests to me that we'd probably benefit from lots of repeated work.

[forcry]

As an outside observer, replication crisis appear to more a result of other things like "publish or perish" and other politics in academics

[username90]

They don't even compete to solve the problem, they compete for funding. People who are better at politics gets more funding, so adding more people could even be net negative with them draining up all the funding from those who do the actual research.