Yeah ok but most science doesn't need a supercollider. Most of the erroneous science is in the social sciences, psych especially, and there really isn't any equivalent of a supercollider in psychology. The only possible equivalent is a massive study of like 200+ subjects but once you're at that scale you can be pretty confident that your statistics have converged, anyway. The real issue is low sample size(<100 although most studies done are <30) psychology studies which are by and large relatively easy to reproduce.
I don’t think all the problems that cause lack of reproducibility come from small sample sizes. For example, P-hacking is a thing (intentionally or not) and larger sample sizes don’t solve that. Experiment registration can help so you can track negative results but that doesn’t help if there’s no reproduction attempt (ie you could just have gotten lucky). There’s also straight up fraud you have to deal with.
The point is, op is right that it’s expensive. The computer industry that we’re in claims to be data driven but I’ve observed numerous poor quality studies being done to drive decisions that I’m pretty jaded (no reproduction, poor sample sizes, skewed sample sizes where it’s employees, etc etc). And these are smart people where the decisions being made can impact the financial outcome.
I didn’t install the plug-in, but made a mental substitution and reread the thread. Now I am chuckling like a grade schooler over some madlibs and dribbled coffee down my shirt.
Cloud computing energy use appears to be on an exponential trend driven by general trends (all things automated), with new forms of automation compounding competitive pressures (deep learning models quickly getting larger, more powerful, more useful, and more versatile in a way erasing many lines holding back past competition.)
At some point, it seems inevitable that computing usage will be a first level climate driver, regardless of how green the energy is.
Harnessing orbital solar, fission and fusion power, may solve the CO2 energy problem, without requiring us to steal the biosphere's energy needs, but will eventually create a massive waste heat energy problem.
Unless we find someway to efficiently transfer mass amounts of heat energy off of Earth.
Or we eventually limit computing on Earth, and export that to the Moon and beyond.
>A man stuck in snow did not have a mobile phone signal to call for help. He typed an SMS into his phone, attached it to his drone and, once airborne, the phone found a signal, and help for him and two other stranded people arrived.
