> What does a record label provide when you can just upload music to Spotify?
I believe this is an illustrative example in support of my proposition, not against. Many artists are in fact turning away from record labels in favor of self publishing. Similarly for books.
But I will say that I still think there's value and so I'll expand on my ideas about conferences. I think they should exist, but be focused on meet and greets. So instead of being an indicator of the validity of work, have them invite authors to speak about their works. Allow others to sign up for poster sessions. How to do that appropriately does need to be worked out, but there's nothing wrong with it simply being under recommendation from the advisement of the organizing members. Yes, there will still be preferential bias, but I do mean "still" because we do have preferential biases towards certain institutions and labs. This would just make it a bit more explicit that they are not the arbitrators of quality but just treated as a "reward."
Importantly I think this allows opening the doors for different kinds of research that are not incentivized by our systems. Most important being reproduction
I believe this is an illustrative example in support of my proposition, not against. Many artists are in fact turning away from record labels in favor of self publishing. Similarly for books.
But I will say that I still think there's value and so I'll expand on my ideas about conferences. I think they should exist, but be focused on meet and greets. So instead of being an indicator of the validity of work, have them invite authors to speak about their works. Allow others to sign up for poster sessions. How to do that appropriately does need to be worked out, but there's nothing wrong with it simply being under recommendation from the advisement of the organizing members. Yes, there will still be preferential bias, but I do mean "still" because we do have preferential biases towards certain institutions and labs. This would just make it a bit more explicit that they are not the arbitrators of quality but just treated as a "reward."
Importantly I think this allows opening the doors for different kinds of research that are not incentivized by our systems. Most important being reproduction