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10% will be creating indie games, 80% will be doing "let's plays". But seriously, if we have too much people to work why not make scientists from all of them?
by ajuc 10y ago
10% will be creating indie games, 80% will be doing "let's plays".
But seriously, if we have too much people to work why not make scientists from all of them?
1. Change education system with the assumption that the default career is experimental science.
2. Change the workflow so that you don't need to be incredibly smart to prove you can be allowed to measure stuff and write the results down.
3. pay all these people to do science instead if of paying them the guaranteed income.
If we have to waste money at least "waste" them on something useful. Imagine the progress we could make if 50% of population worked as scientists. Imagine how different a society would look.
- T-A 10y agoBecause the average IQ is, by definition, 100.
- ajuc 10y agoIrrelevant. Society made up by Einsteins would have average IQ 100 as well. The problem would be real if society was mostly people that can't have any positive impact on science, but I don't think it's true, especially if we trained everybody with the listed assumptions.
- T-A 10y ago> Society made up by Einsteins would have average IQ 100 as well. Irrelevant. Which kind of "positive impact on science" would you expect from somebody with an IQ of 100 in the real world, as opposed to your hypothetical "society made up of Einsteins"?
- ajuc 10y agoI would expect them to carefuly do the assigned experiments and record the results. If they can be trusted with mounting cars they can be trusted with reading and writing. Assign same experiments to 10 different teams all over the world to be sure. Would be actually better than unmotivated incredibly bright people hastily doing these experiments once. Yes the way we do science would need to change but I think it's for the better. It's not like most of the work post-docs do isn't menial.
- T-A 10y agoI think the words you are looking for are "lab technician".
- erikpukinskis 10y agoLots of people with IQs of 100 do science. Science is really simple. You can explain it in a single sentence. Children do science all the time.