You thought science worked by the rules, right? Do the same thing, you should get the same result. Replicability is supposed to be the heart of the scientific process.... but in the real world, not so much. (At least in molecular biology. asciilifeform claims that physics is different - I wouldn't know.) And there is this thing, which says that people will value the occasional large reward (coming at an unpredictable time) over a small but consistent reward of equal or somewhat greater... read more
