What would non partisan look like at this point? The administration is actively targeting American and non American scientists who do not agree with their world view. By any moral metric I’m aware of most of the administration is fairly defined as “vile”(the president publicly brags about committing many sins for example) and in comparison to prior administrations they are largely under qualified(“incompetent”). You might say that’s true of many politicians which might be the case however that then makes it non partisan.
At some point people need to call a spade a spade. I wish we weren’t here but we are and the anger is justified, the names factual.
If you read each line, everything is factually correct. It only seems like name calling because to factually describe the members of this administration you have to use those terms.
> the US has been responsible for a huge amount of the basic research that we've been building the whole scientific enterprise on. We're now engaged in tearing all of that down, and it's a crime against this nation, against its people, and against the rest of the human race - an unforgivable one.
Absolutely Right!
Looking at it from outside the US, nothing makes sense except for two possibilities;
1) A vested group (local+foreign engineered) in the US is bent on destroying everything that made the US a scientific/technological powerhouse. The effects will only be known many years in the future when it will be too late to do anything about it.
2) A complete buy-in into AI/AGI possibilities and hence a belief that you don't need human collaborations across the globe. This is a very iffy premise with a low probability.
Science has many other challenges and if you put everything together, the future does look uncertain. Some links;
The administration has attacked, as they promised when running for election, all of the perceived power centers of its opposition: the arts, individuals, educational institutions, selected law firms, science and researchers, civil servants, selected broadcasters, immigrants (legal and illegal), election systems (through both the legal system and political gerrymandering), selected industry projects - especially renewables - and has even made disaster relief partisan. There's nothing unique about the attack on research; it is consistent with the stated intent of the republican majority.
No, it's not either of those things. The administration doesn't like the politics of most science/academic types, and views intellectualism as a tool of liberals. And as we all know, the libs must be owned.
It's really not any more complicated or thought-through than that.
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[ 1.3 ms ] story [ 44.0 ms ] threadAt some point people need to call a spade a spade. I wish we weren’t here but we are and the anger is justified, the names factual.
A partisan take would be "other team bad because my team good"
Absolutely Right!
Looking at it from outside the US, nothing makes sense except for two possibilities;
1) A vested group (local+foreign engineered) in the US is bent on destroying everything that made the US a scientific/technological powerhouse. The effects will only be known many years in the future when it will be too late to do anything about it.
2) A complete buy-in into AI/AGI possibilities and hence a belief that you don't need human collaborations across the globe. This is a very iffy premise with a low probability.
Science has many other challenges and if you put everything together, the future does look uncertain. Some links;
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34248858
MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304379
New research shows scientific innovation narrows as scientists age - https://datascience.uchicago.edu/insights/new-research-shows...
It's really not any more complicated or thought-through than that.