>wizard invests fortune in spell research>doesn’t write an article about it>doesn’t allow peer review, never submits to journal >nothing is ever published And don’t get started on how few alumni of the magic academy ever come back to teach instead of going private.
>>9721064115 years ago this would have been a 300 reply thread.
>>97210641>research weapons of mass destruction>sharing this information outside your closest circle
>>97210641>wizards (known collectors of arcane secrets who do stupid shit all the time for lore) are paranoid secret hoarders who don't share what they know unless an apprentice is actually of similar or sound mind to absorb itI wonder why?
>>97210641Look, if the academies has proper incentives, they could compete for the top wizards. Obviously they were never going to compete on salary, butit used to be that any tenured magister could expect to sexually harass one or two students a year with no trouble. Note you can't even tell a girl that you like her familiar's plumage without a complaint getting filed.
>>97211249>High Magister, we've received a complaint from some of the students about your familiar not respecting physical boundries (or aetheric ones for that matter) and touching them inappropriately.>The fuck you mean? Dogs sniff things>So sniffing the female students skirts and panties is normal?>About as normal as them sniffing each others assholes.
>>97210781Generals killed this board.
>>97210641I'm a tech entrepreneur with patents. Do you think that anyone in the real business world publishes just because they want to share information? In reality, publication happens for some combination of the following five reasons:>advertising>institutional cachet/attachment (ex. "As this study from Harvard Business School says about our product..."), and yes, this is essentially also advertisement, but less direct than the first one>preempting competitors and boxing in an emerging market with first mover status, without having to release a full product>It's their job; they are in academia and literally have to publish or they get fired or kicked off the tenure track>An unsophisticated outsider wants recognition and good vibes or to achieve specific social objectives more than they want moneyNow imagine you're a fucking wizard. You know, with absolute certainty, that magic is real, and that with sufficient effort, you can literally produce any effect that you, uhh... Wish. So why do you need to advertise? To whom? You are competing with yourself, or in a system where others are simultaneously competing with themselves in parallel, and just because one of you hits Level 18 first does not prevent others from continuing to gain xp; therefore preemption doesn't matter. Do you think wizards who are at the level where they are capable of spell research are worried about getting kicked as adjunct professors at State? Finally, when it comes to magic, what objectives would writing an "open source scroll" achieve? This, anon, is why.
But irl magic is as it is. There are no new discoveries but uncovering or recovering old lost secrets. Irl magic is much more streamlined than scientific research
>>97210641Because wizards are hermetic alchemists, not scientists. They study the natural world because they believe that by understanding the rules they will unlock how to bend or break them, but they do not follow the scientific method.
