# Science Can Meet in Natural Language by Richard Socher > Computer science climbed through layers of abstraction until it met the rest of humanity in natural language. Other scientific fields can reach the same level of abstraction, allowing people and machines to conduct science together through language. > **— Adapted from Richard Socher**, *MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 07:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=468s) — The poster text is an explicit non-verbatim adaptation assembled from the source excerpts below. It preserves the speaker's argument while removing spoken-language filler, restoring the subject, and completing the mechanism or consequence needed for independent use. - **Exact transcript excerpt at [07:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=468s):** “I mean, the-- I think every field is going to get to higher and higher levels of abstraction. Computer science has been very good at that, right? No one is programming in zeros and ones anymore. No one-- Like, uh, very few people have to still know C++ and complex pointers and, and memory, uh, architectures, and so on. We can, uh, get larger and larger, and computer science has basically abstracted enough so that it met the rest of humanity with English right? And natural language that now can be used to do computer science. And so I think that, um, gives me great hope, uh, that we can get other fields into similar, uh, stages of abstraction and then all meet in, in natural language to do science.” - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — preserves broadcast order, speaker reconciliation, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation|Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation]] - **Article:** [[articles/Longevity Escape Velocity|Longevity Escape Velocity]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Richard Socher|Richard Socher]] - [[wiki/Science in Natural Language|Science in Natural Language]] - [[wiki/Abstraction Layers in Science|Abstraction Layers in Science]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Computer science climbed through layers of abstraction until it met the rest of humanity in natural language. Other scientific fields can reach the same level of abstraction, allowing people and machines to conduct science together through language. — Adapted from Richard Socher, MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-richard-socher-science-can-meet-in-natural-language ```