Scientific Community
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
20VC
5 statements about Scientific Community, every show
Friedberg: Modern science enforces conformity by withholding funding and tenure from heterodox thinkers
“So much of science has kind of followed this sheep-like mentality, where everyone has to line up, agree to the same general theory, or you get outcasts, you don't get grant funding, you don't get tenure, you don't get jobs, you don't get invited to do lectures…”
Kratsios: The scientific community has become deeply politicized over past 20 years
“To me, I think that scientific community has lost its way over, over the last few decades... And to be honest, I think over the last, you know, 15 or 20 years, I think science has been deeply and deeply politicized, and we no longer are asking sort of the very…”
Kaplan: AI swarms will eventually replicate entire scientific communities
“Eventually we imagine AI models or millions of AI models perhaps working together will be able to do the work That whole human organizations can do. They'll be able to do the kind of work that the entire scientific community currently does.”
LeCun: Neural network research faced a decade of ridicule starting in 1995
“There was indeed about 10 years when not only nobody was interested in neural nets, but people were even making fun of it, you know, talking about it in sort of disparaging terms.”
Economist Peter Leeson Calls Polygraph Tests Scientifically Invalid Horseshit Like Astrology
“Totally horseshit. Like astrology, there are people who believe that polygraph tests are actually capable of physiologically measuring whether or not someone is lying or telling the truth, but the scientific community overwhelmingly and correctly rejects them.”