What the fuck is LeCum thinking about? I work in academia and I couldn't give a shit about being remembered, I just want to live to fight another day like the next guy.

This feels like billionaire banter.

As a trans person, I fucking hate Elon Musk. But as a chaos magician, I gotta take his side on this debate. Mainstream scientific publications won't take research that's sufficiently "silly" or "esoteric", and magic falls under these even when the scientific method is used. Now, many people have published works on chaos magic such as books, but not so much with publishing in reputable scientific journals.

Science, real science like Elon is describing, happens when you write stuff down. "Published science" is where the glamor is but that's, quite obviously, not what Elon was talking about.

So sad to see bitter people lash out at the successful. (projection is also a classic trait)