There is a growing push to discredit science and I would not be surprised if this was part of it.

I don't have the journalistic chops or time to dig into the study but I do know for sure that human beings are fundamentally wasteful creatures and that's okay.

Science is not going to be destroyed by a bunch of bad papers. What's Going to destroy science are the billionaires like Peter thiel spending tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars discrediting it so that they can maintain their power and prestige.

Techno feudalism is going to destroy science.

No. The *correct* way to fix this is to resolve the root cause:

How funding is awarded.

Currently, the paradigm is 'publish or perish', because science funding is only handed out to 'rockstars' by politicians who dont understand the fundamental value of boring replication work.

It is the toxic combination of 'I can only do work if I publish first and publish often!', and 'There is nobody checking my work anyway; nobody has the funding to do verification! that leads to this perverse outcome.

Further restriction to 'vip rockstars only!' Is a gross misunderstanding of the root problem, and would be heaping jetfuel on top of the dumpsterfire.

Turns out, you actually need non-rockstars--Lots of them.

And to have them, you have to fund them and their laboratories.

Oh, how awful! You cant have 'only cream'. /s

The sooner this is realized in policy, the better.

Do not expect general availability this decade or the next one. Do not expect anything easy to use. Still, that they can do this without brain surgery is pretty impressive.

No. I think they should do things that benefit themselves.

If by extension they benefit the company as well, they should require compensation for it. This is notably why changing jobs is the better way of getting salary raises if you're a competent employee. Being an actually competitive employee comes with the bonus in modern economy where companies compete for you and not vice versa.

Steering things in the wrong direction, apparently — solar panels, the country, etc.

I don't think you realize how little radioactive material we're talking about here. 1 kilogram of U-235 would power a 100 kW reactor for more than two decades, if my math is right. That's about the size of a golf ball. You're telling me you don't think they can put enough lead around a golf-ball-sized chunk of uranium to ensure that it doesn't end up exposing anyone if the ship explodes during launch?

Unfortunately, it looks like that. The reason is that there are too many plain bad people and too many that do not understand what is going on and hence are easy to manipulate.

It is worse: Healthcare is mostly being done because it makes economic sense, reduces cost and improves productivity. Yes, it is not completely utilitarian, but it has a strong component of it.

from the Epstein files

How come it's 70 degrees out and I'm the only one not using air conditioning because it has a stale smell and makes me feel bad?

How come Washington state has so much extra capacity that it has to curtail hydropower production at night,and often curtails wind farms during the day due to excess supply?

What if your power bills are going up not because of an actual scarcity, but because regulators increase retsil rates even as utilities hedge their costs in financial markets su h that they don't even need retail income to sustain operations, that is just icing on the cake, handed them on a silver platter by scarcity mongers such as yourself?

Because now you have to compete with these data centers for power. And I don't care what any of these people say America does not spend on infrastructure so it's going to come out of your hide.

We are already seeing people in California suggesting that people should have to take fewer showers to keep the AI data centers in water. There was a bunch of outrage when it was said but that's how that works. You introduced the idea into the public consciousness and then you continuously reintroduce it until it becomes normalized.

I've been watching megacorporations use that trick for 50 years and it always works because we never learn.

Used to promote the new Superman movie with the guy who was playing Green lantern. It was weird and bizarre and I don't understand why they did it. I mean how hard could it be to get the actor to say some nice things about the movie and then advertisement? The only thing I can think of is is that it cost less because of how the contract with the actor worked.

I got to say every year of my life I've been alive the world has gotten noticeably worse. I can't think of a single year where I can't point to something and say, that made the world the worst place and nothing counteracted it.

Even the handful of scientific advancements or largely irrelevant because more and more we are taking those things away from people. It doesn't do any good for science to advance if we're just not going to let people have science anymore.

I'm not dead yet!

One moment....OOOF

Enbalming procedure commencing.

This is just more cheap labor for corporations. They will fight tooth and nail the force Americans back into the office but all the dirt cheap North Koreans who want to work remote can have that.

I really wish the left wing in America could actually address the problems the working class face. If I bring up the fact that the education opportunities my kid needs to move up in the world have been taken away but that the same opportunities continue to be made available to foreign students I get called racist and told to shut up because the GDP is going up so I should sit down and be happy.

If I point to the half million H1B tech workers in this country plus all the other programs designed to bring them here for me to compete within the job market again I can't even begin to have a discussion with that without immediately being called racist and again told to shut the fuck up, sit down and suck it down.

I'm not so stupid and I'm going to turn to the Republican party but they are the only ones who talk about the issue.

They are lying when they do and they are doing everything in their power to bring in even more cheap labor for me to compete with but faced with somebody calling me a racist and somebody at least giving me pretend lip service I could see why somebody would be tempted.

On the other hand the Republicans are flat out lying to me where is at least a Democrats have the common courtesy to tell me fuck you were bringing in more cheap labor