Thinking about the previous post:
\nWhen I initially began working with computer game theory, it was always easier for me when somebody violently criticized me than when they actually agreed. It seemed kind of awkward when somebody had actually been influenced by something I’d written or said. I am not as manically focused on antagonism these days, but there still are some fuzzy boundaries between 1) what should be a clear reference, 2) what is something that has become a common meme, and 3) what is an idea that is so obvious that everybody has come up with it on their own.
\nI recently reviewed a paper whose main point was essentially identical to a posting I had made on a mailing list – the author was also on the mailing list. I still don’t know whether it was 1) plagiarism, 2) an idea I had launched into the world that sailed of on its own, or 3) me overestimating my own ingenuity. And I still don’t know how to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thinking about the previous post: When I initially began working with computer game theory, it was always easier for me when somebody violently criticized me than when they actually agreed. It seemed kind of awkward when somebody had actually been influenced by something I’d written or said. I am not as manically focused on antagonism … Continue reading “More on plagiarism, inspiration, and influence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}