Terence Tao

And again, still missing things like he didn't know the mechanism for hereditary DNA.

Yeah, but his writing style was persuasive and that helped a lot.

Newton wrote in Latin.

He had invented entire new areas of mathematics just to explain what he was doing.

He was also from an era where scientists were much more secretive and competitive.

So academia is still competitive, but it was even worse back in Newton's day.

So he held back some of his best insights because he didn't want his rivals to get any advantage.

He was also actually somewhat unpleasant person from what I gather actually.

So it was actually only a couple of decades after Newton where other scientists explained his work in much simpler terms that they became widespread.

So yeah, the art of exposition and making a case and creating a narrative is also a very important part of science.

If you have the data, it helps, but people need to be convinced.

Otherwise, they will not push it further or they will not take initial investment to learn your theory and really explore it.

And that's another thing which is really hard to reinforce and learn on.

How can you score how persuasive you are?

Well, there's the entire marketing departments who are trying to do this.

So maybe it's good that AI are not yet optimized to be persuasive.

So, yeah, there's a social aspect to science.

Even though we pride ourselves on having an objective side to it, where there's data and there's experiment and validation, we still have to tell stories and convince our fellow scientists.

And that's a soft, squishy thing.

It's a combination of data and...