Is this some Taleb bullshit?
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Replying to @mr_scientism
No. Just actually tracing the roots of technical development through egyptian/grecian roots, through european monastic empiricsm, and western european hobbyist experimentation
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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
Its unlikely youre even familiar with the fairly miraculous synchronous development of the transistor and information theory.
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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
the “hobbyists” you are referring to were aristocrats with a research budget comparable to a small nation
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @mr_scientism
Certainly the likes of newton were. I agree that the term 'hobbyist' may have the unintended implication of everyman or pauper
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A small nation in like 1700s currency is tinier than most major corporations in all honesty
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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
it’s hard to do financial comparisons but eg I think it’s reasonable to say Tycho Brahe’s research used more of his nation’s tax revenue than NASA during the space race
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @mr_scientism
Not a bad comparison, but I dont know what the figures are in terms of raw spending (in gold?) Or per capitahttps://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/financing-tychos-little-piece-of-heaven/amp/ …
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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
I can find the % of nat’l income figure for you if you rly want it and you can do calcs from there that post is right about tycho’s close ties to royal family but quite wrong on some large issues
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i assume you understand military importance of astronomy and general “blue sky” research quality of much Ren science
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Hven a sizeable fraction of national budget, flat out impossible for fiefs bestowed on a courtier to be a multiple of that (and anyway they still needed chamberlains so it wasn’t a cost-savings not to appt Tycho)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @mr_scientism
yeah the cost savings thing was obvious bullshit. I was posting since someone else had the same analogy in mind.
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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
one standard hist of sci (maybe finocchario?) does the math on that comparison, i’m sure we both got it from him
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