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> Sure in la-la-land where science isn't conducted by humans. If someone has a large bag of money laying around the plan is this: There are lots of companies

by 6510 2y ago

> Sure in la-la-land where science isn't conducted by humans. If someone has a large bag of money laying around the plan is this: There are lots of companies that will run material A though machine B for you. There are a lot of science machines. One is to put a lot of them into a large building and make a web page where one can order the processing of substances in a kind of design your own rube goldberg machine. It can start with all purchasable liquids and gasses, mixing, drying, heating, freezing, distilling etc and measure color, weight, volume, viscosity, nuclear resonance etc, microscope video, etc. Have as much automation as possible, collect all the machines. A robot cocktail bar basically. Work your way up to assembling special contraptions all ordered though the gui. Jim can have x samples of his special cement mixture mixed and strength tested. Jack can have his cold fusion cells assembled. Stanley can have his water powered combustion engine. Howard can have his motor powered by magnets. Veljko can have his gravity powered engine. Thomas can have his electrogravitics. Wilhelm can have his orgone energy. or not... hah.... If any people are involved they should not know what they are working on. It wont be cheap but then you get an url with your nice little test report and opinions be damned.

Vecr 2y ago
I think that might end up with "Oops! All Smallpox."
- 6510 2y ago
  Ill be the last one to say the idea doesn't come with some serious challenges. Someone some day will think it funny to try blow up the place. But if you want to without human error/bias there is nothing close to removing all the humans. Things that are controversial, unbelievable or unlikely may have big implications and risking your career on it is usually not a good idea - for you. Though automation one might drive the prices down to make the brute force approach viable but with somewhat intelligent machines one could also make educated guesses in volume. You could auto suggest similar experiments while the researcher types their queries complete with prices. The original question was: How can we do more research without increasing the number of scientists.

by 6510 2y ago

Vecr 2y ago

I think that might end up with "Oops! All Smallpox."

6510 2y ago
Ill be the last one to say the idea doesn't come with some serious challenges. Someone some day will think it funny to try blow up the place. But if you want to without human error/bias there is nothing close to removing all the humans. Things that are controversial, unbelievable or unlikely may have big implications and risking your career on it is usually not a good idea - for you. Though automation one might drive the prices down to make the brute force approach viable but with somewhat intelligent machines one could also make educated guesses in volume. You could auto suggest similar experiments while the researcher types their queries complete with prices. The original question was: How can we do more research without increasing the number of scientists.