[thwarted]

Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.

Everyone wants answers, so anyone that provides an answer is elevated, independent of if the answer is right or not. To wit: the current AI push.

Clips from The Big Short surfaced in my YouTube feed recently, and they way you worded this reminded me of the scene with the rating agency.

Is scientific research and publishing headed for it's own CDS/MBS-esque implosion?

[nextos]

I think academic research is becoming very inefficient, and traditional Academia might eventually become stagnant. If you don't play the game I described above, it is really hard to stay afloat. I guess industrial labs, where incentives are better aligned, might become more attractive. I have seen lots of prominent scientists moving into industrial labs recently, which would be something hard to imagine even a few years back.