[aeim]

so, measuring progress by lines of knowledge added?

speaking openly

that kinda science seems like a bullshit factory (a very lucrative one, of course)

and analogous to an llm hallucination — shallow satisfaction of constraints by enumerating a problem space irrespective of contextual appropriateness, a liability, and forgotten as soon as real value comes along

surely the best science isn't just reproducible by scientists — engineers can get the grubby mits on it, to improve (ok, shape) the circumstances of our lives, and survival

that other stuff is busywork, not "literature". they are very different things...