The framing is not ideal, but this is just labor activism by people who have never thought of themselves as the working class.
Science is going to be automated the way manufacturing was: everything is worse, the jobs that are left suck, and all the profits go to the stock market instead of us.
like you think this is a straw man no this is a real thing that a real guy stood up and said at neurips while addressing a bunch of medical research people and then wrote a long and self-righteous blog about togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
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Please, don't automate science!
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...