What Counts as Discovery? Rethinking AI's Place in Science

> Newton did not just describe motion—he invented the ideas of force and mass.

I think this is just what incremental progress looks like from the outside. It's a magic trick that happens when we don't see each step of the progression.

> The narrative around AI in science is shifting—from tool to theorist, from assistant to author.

I agree that AI is making people out of touch, and I think that's part of the market's goal. It's a lot easier to sell stuff to people if you can convince them it's magic.

I don't think that AI has fundamentally changed anything about the nature of discovery; we're just making reference materials fluid and generative -- it's an incremental step. So, I agree with you that the narrative is largely missing the pieces that make things "tricky". It feels sort of like people are rediscovering copy pasta and then being like, "Look how much work I did!"