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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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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at the end when it interacts with a human it has to be elegant/beautiful. i get beaten on the head w this everyday.
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it doesn't always need to interact with a human
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When I was younger, I was enamored of Gell-Mann idea that science is necessarily beautiful. I'm no longer so sure.
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I've forgotten arguments in Chandrashekhar's book, but I remember being impressed by them 20 years ago. amazon.com/Truth-Beauty-A
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The science equivalent of how software devs can deliver value even after subtracting all the value lost to atrocious proj. mgmt?
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New niches allow sub-optimal patterns to proliferate. As competition emerges, it will force increasing elegance, I'm sure.
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