Thanks Sam. I agree that #2 is particular interesting. I see the same dynamic e.g. in @Meaningness's Geeks, Mops, and Sociopaths model (https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths …), where the mops and sociopaths eventually dilute the geek network near to death.
Thank, I enjoyed this! Its description of the pathologies of institutional science are mostly correct I think. They’ve been clear to the clueful for decades, have gotten progressively worse, and are now so bad that even the MSM are writing about the problems.
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The question is what to do about it. Charlton is nostalgic for “the systematic mode” or “high modernism” or “the golden age of rationalism,” which ended in the late 60s. What he’d really like to do is to restore that, which gives him a cranky reactionary tone, but >
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> he recognizes that this is impossible, and suggests a return to amateur science instead. His valorized examples are the Manhattan Project and Apollo, which … are the antithesis of amateur science. (As he also notes.) They are, rather, peak achievements of high modernism.
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