You mean authoritarianism is something that appeals to some over others? But it's an empirical issue as well: has authoritarian-flavoured science worked well in the past? I believe it hasn't because science isn't something that can be codified nor something monolithic.
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For those who don't like clicking off Twitter: it "automatically produces a 10-15 page report describing patterns discovered in data [and] returns a statistical model with state-of-the-art extrapolation performance evaluated over real time series data sets from various domains".
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So yeah...

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I feel like somebody is going to come up with a conspiracy that I want to replace all non-modellers with robots (i.e., models) so modellers can fully rule the field. Very Stepford wives.
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We *ehem* need those.
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