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by vinnyvichy 740 days ago
Perhaps rather the abundance of disincentives to redo things completely from scratch.

Parts of mathematical biology are still AI resistant, but otherwise, funders are not going to be happy about proposals to discard all those models/theory in order to possibly discover no better models/theory.

EDIT: that's Feynman's modus operandi, everything from first principles, avoid looking at previous work if possible.