I gave a nice talk once on aviation history as a parable for the exponential hangover now afflicting computer technology. Today it could just as easily be about machine learning. https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm …
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Neil Gershenfeld, legendary MIT professor, used to respond to a lot of hype about new, rapidly improving technologies by saying “the first half of a sigmoid looks like an exponential”.
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faster flights are less fuel efficient, it's no surprise that airliners today don't aim at being the fastest.
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This is a good way to encapsulate what I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Basically, the 50’s-early 60’s was the last period of almost every major scientific and technological discovery. Almost everything else has been details since then.
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Sort of agree, or at least get how this sentiment could emerge. There are nuances and varying ways to define “discovery” and how we value it, both in the present and past. You might find John Horgan’s takes on this over the years to be interesting, e.g.https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/was-i-wrong-about-8220-the-end-of-science-8221/ …
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