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 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
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.
