It feels like between ~1920 and today, science went from exciting spectator sport where all educated people paid attention to big philosophical debates, to blackbox source of tech goodies
Things like the Einstein-Bergson debate probably couldn’t happen today. We have TED instead
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To be fair, we have the outstanding debates. I wouldn’t be surprised to see your hypothetical debate happening in London organized by them
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Economics seem to be the same. No more Hayek-Lange debates. Lots of Freakonomics and Planet Money.
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"When a machine runs efficiently, when a matter of fact is settled, one need focus only on its inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become"
OR from Gramophone to iPod
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or it’s happening on a podcast as we speak and written off as unacademic until they publish on arxiv






