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The five steps of making knowledge
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Ask, gather, analyse, check, publish.
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Which steps collapsed in cost?
Answer
Gathering and analysing — and publication became immediate.
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Why is checking the bottleneck?
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It takes the same work it always did and nobody is rewarded for doing it, so results outran verification.
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What makes checking cheap
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Publishing the data and the code, and registering the method before the data is examined.
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