Dan Levenstein
dlevenstein.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, in theory. Studying sleep and navigation in 🧠s and 💻s. Wu Tsai Investigator, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Yale. An emergent property of a few billion neurons, their interactions with each other and the world over ~1 century.
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AI has not made theory any cheaper. AI has made it easier to develop code and tools that allow us to test things, somewhat lowering the bar for testing some kinds of theories.
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I’ve been telling people that my best-case outcome for the next decade is that there’s a return to focus on ideas rather than what we can effectively code or work out with pencil and paper. Those are important skills, but I think we would benefit from a renewed focus on idea generation.
Show PostYou can certainly get Claude to spin up a reasonable-sounding grant application, but it is not new theory and when you start peeling away the layers of text you realize there's nothing much at the center of it.
Show PostThis. I am continually surprised by people who have confused the technical craft aspects of doing science with the conceptual and question-driven aspects of doing science. This is our Pop Art moment. Or photography. Theory in the age of mechanical reproduction.
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