A general point: maybe I've failed to read closely enough, but skimming I didn't find any actual program for "Liberatory Science".
A specific point: how would we self-organise the equivalent of, say, https://home.web.cern.ch ? (thanks to which, we're communicating over HN)
In the current system, lawyers by training are a per-mille part of the population; the number of trained physicists is per-mille compared to them, so we're literally talking about few-in-a-million skill sets. Even the logistics of rotations would be difficult: say we do weekly rotations between the ages of 12 and 72; with only 3000 rotations per "career" most people would have no physics rotations, and a few would have 1 week; hardly a sufficient training period!
I didn't see anything concrete suggested here. Rotations were an idea from one of your previous threads (and not inconsistent with what I understand of Le Guin's Dispossessed). Is there a better way to handle skilled roles?
i think the rotations concept applies more to positions of power/control and this article covers social participation in science beyond that kind of scheme. the article talks about critical "free individuals" and sub-groups of society still afforded long-term focus on their scientific practice, but it's difficult to understand concretely. i'll look for better sources on this topic.
A specific point: how would we self-organise the equivalent of, say, https://home.web.cern.ch ? (thanks to which, we're communicating over HN)
In the current system, lawyers by training are a per-mille part of the population; the number of trained physicists is per-mille compared to them, so we're literally talking about few-in-a-million skill sets. Even the logistics of rotations would be difficult: say we do weekly rotations between the ages of 12 and 72; with only 3000 rotations per "career" most people would have no physics rotations, and a few would have 1 week; hardly a sufficient training period!