I enjoyed speaking with @EconTalker about the piece @michael_nielsen and I wrote last year about progress in science: http://www.econtalk.org/patrick-collison-on-innovation-and-scientific-progress/ …. (Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/ ….)
The key problem here is transmission fidelity. Tacit knowledge and inarticulate heuristics no longer pass from masters to apprentices. Mass-production education has fatally undermined traditional apprenticeship, with dire effects. http://bit.ly/1X1QmZy / http://bit.ly/2CcpYcN
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Scientific investigation is an art. Its state of health should be compared with that of other arts. Narrative fiction, (classical) musical performance, and drama all still produce acclaimed and successful masters. In these arts, the traditions of apprenticeship remain strong.
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Painting, sculpture, and musical composition, on the other hand, have become increasingly academic pursuits. Their practitioners have become lecturers, scholars, and critics. They spend less time mentoring individual apprentices, and more time teaching masses of undergraduates.
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