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RE: https://mastodon.social/@thetransmitter/116476879384094089 The issues raised in this article bring to mind de Tocqueville's 1835 "Democracy in America" where he argues the reason for the success of American "democratic" science over European "aristocratic" science is that it makes things simple enough for anyone to reuse. We lose that using AI for science. There may even be a similar social dynamic. Those with the wealth and power to make things more difficult for ordinary people have a strong incentive to do so, because it excludes those ordinary people from taking part and secures their dominant position. #science #neuroscience #AI