Heuristic: If you have data and look for questions, you'll generate insight. If you have questions and look for data, you'll generate noise
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Not quite right. Understand the sentiment, but the later sounds like the appropriate scientific testing of hypotheses.
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Science does not actually work that way (see Feyerabend, Against Method). Also...
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2/2 Science is the craft of "knowing what you know". Like with any craft there are multiple tools, and practitioners of varying talent.
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It sometimes does (minority of cases, especially the automatable ones). That's why I said heuristic, not iron-clad rule.
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Perhaps depends on whether the goal is scientific discovery or technology development.
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That would be nice but the biggest factor is governments treating science production *as* a technology. Goodhart's Law kicks in
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Too often, big science projects like big medicine or big DOD, become a career, where vested interests keep the project going regardless
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i.e. You do want institutionalization, but you want it to be inefficient and benignly neglectful in a specific unplannable way
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Yes! But how do you deliberately create such an environment?
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working on it 😇... If you're on breakingsmart newsletter there will be updates there

