I think AI is neat.

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Fair enough, I used to be scientist (a very bad one that never amounted to anything) and my perspective has been that the major barriers to progress are:

    • We’ve just got all the low hangingfruit
    • Science education isn’t available to many people, perspectives are quite limited consequently.
    • power structures are exploitative and ossified, driving away many people
    • industry has too much influence, there isn’t much appetite to fund blue sky projects without obvious short term money earning applications
    • patents slow progress
    • publish or perish incentivises excessive volumes of publication, fraud, and splitting discoveries into multiple papers which increases burden on researchers to stay current
    • nobody wants to pay scientists, bright people end up elsewhere