I'm just wondering if we'd be able to make the leap necessary to make a nuclear plant. It's like if you're on a ladder the rungs have to be close together enough so you can get to the higher rung via the ones below it
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Carl Sagan makes the case in Cosmos that scientific progress slowed down after its successes made more powerful and profitable market economies, with a slave class for labor. He suggests that science is a manual endeavour, and when you remove yourself from it progress slows.pic.twitter.com/55osfPMoMM
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🤷🏻♀️ @DanielleFongIt is generally thought that Chinese astronomy thereafter underwent a steep decline... "increasing rigidity of elite attitudes, so that the educated were less inclined to be curious about techniques and less willing to value science as an appropriate pursuit for a gentleman.” pic.twitter.com/LaKborKotC1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
This would explain a disturbing amount about the times we live in.
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Yeah this also tracks with the per capita innovation metrics I've read in Human Accomplishment by Murray and also with the progress in physics work that @patrickc and @michael_nielsen have done
The TLDR theory is that science started sucking when researchers turned into managers
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Replying to @DanielleFong @Virtual1nstinct and
I'm increasingly convinced that it's a good thing to use any kind of economic privilege one might have to be an intellectually devoted stay-at-home "loser".
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