Because 2 of the 4 avenues you mentioned dont do shit
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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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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
(the peak of newton’s career would go under state-funded pure research, as a university fellow)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @mr_scientism
"Pure research" being more akin to UBI than any modern program
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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
well UBI is pretty much what a math postdoc would be getting, right? seems rather apt the contemporary equiv of collider experiments would be Boyle’s pump
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @mr_scientism
I think a math postdoc has to justify himself much more than a beneficiary of patronage but yeah Im actually for such individual obsession
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i’m pretty sure newton was more highly vetted than any modern stipendary but yeah, once he was in his research was his own concern afaik
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