reading this makes me feel less crazypic.twitter.com/hMXVVZWz68
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reading this makes me feel less crazypic.twitter.com/hMXVVZWz68
Jokes aside, the task now imo is to understand why science works when it does. Which means putting aside the rationalist fairy tales and doing the hard work of analyzing lots of specifics and coming up with new, quite different understandings
back to honest postage stamp collecting maybe
Yeah that’s discussed in the podcast. It’s boring and the @fourbeerspod guys say they don’t want to do it; they want to have Big Ideas, that’s what they signed up for in the Olde Days. I totally sympathize, which is why I am an internet crackpot, not a scientist
Do they discuss that Darwin's 8-year-long exhaustive study of both living and fossil barnacles was important to both his development of theoretical ideas and his reputation as a careful observer whose wacky ideas should therefore be given credence?pic.twitter.com/EL3BVxnNiP
See http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Richmond_cirripedia.html … Maybe science is composed of "physics and stamp collecting", but stamp collecting has led to some damn impressive results.
The single time I was invited to an NSF "directions in research" meeting, my impassioned position paper that software research needed more Darwin-style stamp collecting met with a "that's not right; that's not even wrong" reaction. Alas.
Early-20th-C physics lingers as the ideal model for all science. This distorts everything hideously, because nothing else works similarly. The Stanford Disunity School usefully pointed to alternative models of successful sciences. Has had little effect on practice unfortunately.
What are some examples of alternative models David? The main one I can think of right now is anthropology, which I suppose is kinda stamp-collecty.
An important one is molecular biology, which works very differently from fundamental physics (in terms of how you reason about experiments), and which has made far more progress in the past half-century. Observational astrophysics works different from both; &c.
Yeah. When you can only observe and almost never experiment, makes the whole thing pretty different. Part of my work has been trying to figure out how various theoretical astrophysical predictions could be "seen" because no direct experiment can test them.
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