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Science, real science like Elon is describing, happens when you write stuff down. “Published science” is where the glamor is but that’s, quite obviously, not what Elon was talking about.

So sad to see bitter people lash out at the successful. (projection is also a classic trait)

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Science requires peer review, so just keeping it all private isn’t doing much for the scientific community as a whole

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If you science in a lab and no one is around to review it did you make a science?

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The difference between science and fucking around is writing it down - Adam Savage

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Couldn’t science papers be hosted on a git-platform for review? Instead of costly publishing and the reviewers have to buy it then…

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There are open access platform that is more reputable than git, like arxiv or hal.

Plus most conferences, at least in my field, support open access. But unfortunately for some of them, you do need to pay a fee in order to get the article to be open-access.

The prestige of the conference/journal is still the best way to get your article known, so that others can review and built upon your work, as of now.

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Science devolved into politics. :-(

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There are differences between “experimenting”, “research”, “analysis” and “science”. You can do the first three at your home, scribbling some notes that no one will ever read or know about, but science, in its hard definition, is a methodology that requires the specific dynamics that are expected of the scientific community, where plenty of people check each other’s work for faults, blind spots, biases, lazy interpretations and so on.

This is fundamental because everyone, including universally recognized geniuses, do sometimes fuck up. Have you heard of Einstein’s famous phrase “God does not play dice with the universe”? This refers to his conviction that the laws of physics were fundamentally deterministic, which was put in question by the early experiments that were opening the way for quantum physics. Einstein found himself at odds with a new generation of physicists that weren’t as inflexible as he was on this issue, and whenever there were indications that extremely small particles may behave in a non-deterministic way, Einstein would argue and push for the most hostile interpretation possible, which did lead other physicists to put his interpretations to the test, which did ironically further prove the non-deterministic pillars of quantum physics.

Science is necessarily a social endeavor because it is meant to help us overcome the fact that each individual human is doomed to be, sooner or later, at one specific issue of many, an inflexible idiot.

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This refers to his conviction that the laws of physics were fundamentally deterministic

What was the bit about quantum mechanics yesterday? “Embrace the chaos and you start to see a pattern.”

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Btw his bio is:

  • Professor at NYU
  • Chief AI Scientist at Meta
  • ACM Turing Award Laurete
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Yeah who is Elon? I’ve never heard of him or SpaceX or Tesla. I guess this Musk guy will die in obscurity. Too bad he didn’t publish a paper.

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Ideally he can go down in history as the 21st century version of Thomas Eddison.

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The guy that bought Lodygin’s patents? Yep.

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Yeah he’s a legend in CS… Muskrat just further rides himself into being the fool of centuries

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