This world is different.
Not consonant to one
I imagined to be like:
where Wittgenstein is losing his mind
over the origins of mind and language;
where Ramanujan is writing equations
that appeared magically in his dreams;
where Turing created computers
only to answer Hilbert's decision problem;
Instead, this world is the result of all of this.
Starting with Turing,
turing machines led to logic,
logic of computations,
machines, simple and complex machines,
machines which we call "computers" now.
Computers which were just an experiment,
a new way to see the world -
a simple and effective way to seek reality,
for reality was and will remain complex,
so why not accept a new way to see it?
But a long-tail of snake,
in that snake-ladder game you played in 90s
could be devastating,
same is I believe the case is with
science now.
With enormous magnification level in experiments,
loads of data and plenty of hi-tech machines,
reality is posing less challenges to machines.
Even if it poses some,
a black-box model,
neural networks -
the thrill of today,
is solving problems no could have imagined before.
But science cares about how you solve them,
every step matter more than the end result.
Science was built on pillars of progressiveness,
problems were left unsolved, for they were really difficult.
Difficult to grasp both visually and mathematically.
But now, visual part is handled by hi-tech cameras,
and mathematical part by neural networks,
and what not!
Science was an enterprise of riches before -
who devoted on intellectual pursuits, for it was noble and niche.
Now science is next door - everyone can learn it, use it and do it.
There still are lot of problems to solve, in science,
but there is competition, so quality is going down.
Philosophy of science is long-lost in the heaps of data.
Future of science is shadowed with the dark carbon clouds that machines emit.
Spirit of science is sold to funders and companies for loads of money.
Seeing all this, makes me question:
Is there any limit to this bloating bubble?
And if it bursts one day,
how will the new world be like?