Great meeting yesterday with a Boston area researcher, interested in cutting edge research tools like Discourse Graphs, Cosmik and science social media.

The research questions they are looking at are too complex & interdisciplinary to be tackled by any single lab. At the same time there is big potential for citizen science - lots of small experiments that are simple to run.

How many big scientific challenges are not so much scientific but rather *meta-scientific* - the challenge of effectively coordinating large scale distributed research?

I asked what he thought about the potential for AI scientists to crack these challenges. For one, he is more interested in AI augmenting human researchers. And even if it could - “I would want for humans to experience the joy of discovery”

Research as art - eg this post but for science: