Comment on Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations

Mahlzeit@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d argue that venture capitalists are the cause of lack of scientific breakthroughs.

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  • neutron@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are we going to hear about enshittification in academia, too? Ugh.

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    • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Enshittification is pump-and-dump for companies over years instead of stocks over days/months.

      Academia’s problems with replication and funding for null/negative results have been known about for a while and are a separate problem. I guess it could be argued that they’re related in that maybe an academic’s career shouldn’t be based on the profit cycle of their institution.

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• GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And yet you saved me one; that’s zero to one at least!

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• circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still wanted a click after reading this because I thought, “no way is this article on science dedicated to that Lizard Person”.

  And I was right, but only because it’s not really an article, much less about science. It’s more like an business experiment to find out if this particular LLM “author”, which generates disconnected gobblygook, can save them significant CapEx over a more expensive AI model that would output articles with something more closely resembling a coherent thought process, or being written by a human.

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