Disclaimer: not a Randian. Though, well, changing the world with SCIENCE, for SCIENCE, is kind of what I’m all about. :P
Anyway, what I meant to say was that “accumulating riches so you can relax later on” isn’t exactly the way I’ve planned my life. When I’m old I want to be a mentor, not a perpetual tourist.
I can how one might get Rand out of that, though this was not why I cringed.
I’m curious—why such an enthusiasm for science? I like sciencey stuff too, but (aside from playing with science-related stuff as a hobby) I see its value as being mostly instrumental rather than terminal—useful in steering humanity into world-states where we’re not dead and/or suffering, but that’s pretty much it.
The number one virtue of a rationalist is curiosity. I am practically a curiosity elemental. And Science sates my curiosity like nothing else in the world.
I’d continue onto a flowery tirade about how much I have always loved science since I was a child, and that I delight in its rationality-enhanced version even more, but look at me here talking when there’s science to do...:P
Disclaimer: not a Randian. Though, well, changing the world with SCIENCE, for SCIENCE, is kind of what I’m all about. :P
Anyway, what I meant to say was that “accumulating riches so you can relax later on” isn’t exactly the way I’ve planned my life. When I’m old I want to be a mentor, not a perpetual tourist.
I can how one might get Rand out of that, though this was not why I cringed.
I’m curious—why such an enthusiasm for science? I like sciencey stuff too, but (aside from playing with science-related stuff as a hobby) I see its value as being mostly instrumental rather than terminal—useful in steering humanity into world-states where we’re not dead and/or suffering, but that’s pretty much it.
The number one virtue of a rationalist is curiosity. I am practically a curiosity elemental. And Science sates my curiosity like nothing else in the world.
I’d continue onto a flowery tirade about how much I have always loved science since I was a child, and that I delight in its rationality-enhanced version even more, but look at me here talking when there’s science to do...:P
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777
Have you considered a career in science? (Or do you have one now?)
I’m happy enough with being an Engineer.