scicomm is an A tier grift you get to launder the the gravitas of the scientists and the average person will never find out you didn’t really made research contributions
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yeah in fact the opposite it’s terrible for good science the moment Einstein became a celebrity is when he really stopped publishing things of crazy value
Some people are just nonsense shields/sponges then. Their job is to heroically take the hit to prevent GIGO overload in the actually competent.
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I’m ready to make the sacrifice
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yeah but like very few people get the gift of semantic immortality … where people remember your name and the things you said long after you’re dead and regardless of what it does to their careers I think the scientists are more deserving of it than the communicators
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Makes sense, but is unrealistic. It would be great if the best ideas lived forever, but in practice memetic longevity depends on a mixture of digestibility and signaling potential rather than on truth or explicit utility. Only within small cults of smart people live higher ideas.
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