Science is being commoditized. Industrialized discovery > novel insight. That's why "science the shit out of this" line works in The Martian
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Still wading through Deepness in the Sky. It has "science the shit out of this" vibe too. No romance, just legibilized cognition model.
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There's something essentially instrumental about industrialized discovery. What bro-science types fetishize. One sign is empiricism>theory.
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Nothing. I'm just observing a trend in what "science" has come to mean versus what it used to mean when I was in school.
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now you're just trolling. Elegance vs inelegance is orthogonal to science versus engineering.
Just a label for a particular attitude. Not sure it is necessary. My thesis advisor used to talk about "romantic math"
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, what particular study are you referring to because 'science' is a broad stroke! There's also some of rose colored nostalgia here.
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err I didn't say it's a bad thing. The nostalgia is all you.
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