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> Disagreement, the possibility to be stupid and wrong, and the ability to take random choices based on intuition are eliminated when the majority of a field ac
by findalex 5y ago
> Disagreement, the possibility to be stupid and wrong, and the ability to take random choices based on intuition are eliminated when the majority of a field acts like scientific managers.
How do we democratize physical sciences in the same way as CS? My bet would be on the combination of the two (simulation) and providing the high-level tools to the masses.
- iamcurious 5y agoBy focusing on Small Science. Big Science needs big money, big equations, big machines, big careers, big meetings, etc, so big science should be last resort. Make experiments cheap, cheap enough that it becomes embarrassing not to double check. Cheap enough that half of the comments in a science article are about people doing the experiment themselves right there.
- bllguo 5y agoare there guarantees that "Small Science" is productive? Regardless of how knowledgeable I am I don't think I can do experimental particle physics in my garage.
- native_samples 5y agoThat doesn't work. The scientific literature is already flooded with cheap theory papers and a clear absence of real heavy lifting. Such papers are routinely filled with basic errors or flawed methodologies. There's no embarrassment associated with not double checking, failed replications happen all the time and there are usually no consequences.