Article The next scientific revolution won’t come from scientists

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80% of scientific studies are ignored, but that's about to change
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INTRO: Thomas Kuhn taught us that scientific revolutions arrive only in moments of a crisis of the paradigm. Now, as philosopher Steve Fuller argues, we may be able to intervene without having to wait for a Kuhnian paradigm shift. In a scientific world dominated by computer simulations and unread research, generative AI offers a radical solution. By mining the entirety of scientific knowledge and placing it in the hands of non-experts, AI could trigger a metascientific revolution -- one that finally delivers on science’s promise of collective empowerment.

EXCERPT: Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to kill several epistemic birds with one stone. Equipped with all the published scientific literature, it can provide equal access to users who are educated but not necessarily expert. In this way, the “laity” can redress the biases of the professionals in science, resulting in alternative scientific cultures that hybridize the default academic trajectories of paradigms and contemporary interests in knowledge. Yes, it would break the monopoly that academics have in knowledge production, but it would also allow all the available knowledge to be accessible to the widest range of people. This “metascientific revolution” would finally deliver the promise of science to be a vehicle of mass empowerment... (MORE - missing details)

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A new generation every 20 years now among over 8 billion people exposed to all the information and ideas of the Internet? It won't be long before science will be transformed from the ground up--from the realm of intuitive and creative geniuses and collective teams capable of discoveries unbogged down by the assumptions of a stifling mechanistic worldview. All the blankness about ourselves and our minds that past science has imposed on us will begin being filled up by the arrival of a new paradigm and reality-view. It will be the new age of inner exploration and directly experienced truth--of worlds we have never even dreamed of. It will be roughly equivalent to the de-institutionalization of spirituality in the 21st century, only with the demise of academic authority and sacred historical canons.