I found this essay inspiring and important. The pace of progress in science and technology has slowed, for reasons we partly understand. We also know some factors that appear to accelerate them. Learning more, and applying it, is urgent.https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1156261933202325504 …
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Even worse, can't count how many times in that thread I was told to "Go read some Marx" when asking them to identify just one element that is required for progress. Only one person had a coherent answer. Everyone else refused to name one. Yet somehow this area is "overstudied".
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What was the one coherent and you got? As a layperson, my theory is one common critical element to progress is sufficient discomfort in the existing environment that outweighs the various resistances to change.
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