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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Replying to @vgr
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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@_sunilrawat it doesn't always need to interact with a human
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