Taste Is Not Enough. Reality or Bust

A paper published in Nature on March 25, 2026 describes "The AI Scientist," a system built by Sakana AI that automates the full cycle of scientific research: idea generation, experiments, analysis, writeup, even peer review submission. The marginal cost of producing paper-shaped research output is collapsing. So, when paper production becomes cheap, what is next? 100,000 axiom systems and counting…