Cool quote from @carlislerainey's great piece! I've also been thinking about the parts of social science I value that would be lost if we use AI to optimize the positivist aspects of social science, and what we can do about it. There is valuable writing & thinking done even by positivist social scientists that would be lost in a world where AI helps us streamline papers to be extremely technically correct and faster to produce, writing and thinking that is aesthetic, exploratory, speculative, uncertain, subjective, and/or vague. That writing can be interesting, generative, and frankly fun. I don't want to lose it. And of course lots of academics work primarily in this register.