[SEQ RERUN] Science as Attire

Title: [SEQ RERUN] Science as Attire Tags: sequence_reruns Today’s post, Science as Attire was originally published on 23 August 2007. A summary:

Science is about detailed models of the world. However, many people view science as a set of technical-sounding terms, or a certain type of beliefs that are professed by the group called “scientists”. For instance, the X-Men series is perceived as being in the literary genre of science (fiction), instead of fantasy, because the superpowers are “explained” by the word “mutation”.


Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).

This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we’ll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky’s old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Guessing the Teacher’s Password, and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.

Sequence reruns are a community-driven effort. You can participate by re-reading the sequence post, discussing it here, posting the next day’s sequence reruns post, or summarizing forthcoming articles on the wiki. Go here for more details, or to have meta discussions about the Rerunning the Sequences series.