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> The technical stuff we do is not interesting to the general public, but it enables other people to do more interesting stuff. People upthread said a lot of s
by 7speter 3y ago
> The technical stuff we do is not interesting to the general public, but it enables other people to do more interesting stuff.
People upthread said a lot of scientific research is useless, but my understanding was that the research eventually builds on top of each other in a lot of cases?
- caddemon 3y agoDeep in the trenches a lot of research these days is actually just pretty fucking useless. There are many, many results that unfortunately do not replicate in even slightly different situations. It's a very inefficient way to be searching the scientific space so to speak, and it's a more modern phenomenon. We've scaled (or tried to) science in IMO a really bad way. At least in neurobiology I'm very convinced of that.