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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There's something essentially instrumental about industrialized discovery. What bro-science types fetishize. One sign is empiricism>theory.
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Maybe Feynman vs. Schwinger was where aesthetics started becoming optional extra. With enough compute+data, science can afford to be ugly.
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@vgr Diminished legibility of long-ago discoveries makes recent ones seem greater, giving an illusion of sustained exponential progress.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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