Maintaining a nuclear core at a constant temperature is a very critical job, but I would regard as a dystopia any world where all cores are so maintained by a human and not a microcontroller.
We are in agreement on that. My point is that the quote “everything else [in scientific rigor] is bookkeeping” conveys the idea that it’s not important, not that it isn’t a human’s job.
Maintaining a nuclear core at a constant temperature is a very critical job, but I would regard as a dystopia any world where all cores are so maintained by a human and not a microcontroller.
We are in agreement on that. My point is that the quote “everything else [in scientific rigor] is bookkeeping” conveys the idea that it’s not important, not that it isn’t a human’s job.