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submitted 4 months ago by iridaniotter@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

Today, human ingenuity is expressed through the machines we create.

Emphasis mine.

Yet, prestigious scientific prizes still frame achievements mainly as a human endeavour. Nobel prizes have repeatedly gone to people whose discoveries were made possible only by extraordinary technologies. But the machines and the communities that built them are rarely acknowledged as co-creators.

Nobel season is when the world looks at science. If we portray breakthroughs as purely human triumphs, we reinforce an outdated view in which machines are just tools.

People will really look at the increasingly large-scale and social nature of science making attribution to a single team impossible for some discoveries and insist actually it's the machine that should be included in the prize, not the human laborers involved in the construction and use of it.

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[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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