Science can tell you how to reach your goals but never which goals are right — and it will help just as happily if your goals are horrible.

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• Setting goals makes otherwise-unethical behaviour more likely; goal setting is not bad but has overlooked problems MBMax Bazerman12 Jun 2008
• Clear goals plus a measure that drives progress toward them can achieve amazing progress, yet this is surprisingly rarely done well BGBill Gatesc. 2013
• The ideal outcome for science is to have millions of AI-aided human scientists who follow their curiosity and become more ambitious, rather than a few labs using proprietary models to solve trophy problems. FCFrançois Chollet14 Oct 2026
• The value of an ambitious experiment target is not hitting it but the conversation about what would have to be true to hit it. ACAlbert Cheng5 Oct 2025
• Science can identify problems but cannot by itself tell us what to do about them. JCJason Crawford16 Aug 2023

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