Paradigmatic progress in the sciences has stalled since the 1970ies. There is disagreement about whether we have just figured out all the relevant paradigms, or whether we shifted from answering questions (which is cross disciplinary) to applying methods (cementing disciplines).
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There are no more Wiener, Turing, Minsky, Chomsky, Solomonoff, etc., not because great thinkers no longer exist, but because society at large cannot tell a public speaker from a deep thinker, and academia itself stopped caring about them.
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So Turoch, Penrose, Deutsch, Witten? Hofstader, Tononi, Guth don't count?
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Most of these are members of the last, modernist generation. Nobody engages Penrose on Twistors very much, or Hofstadter on his infinist computation. Tononi has nobody to deconstruct IIT for him, etc. People either buy into or reject a paradigm, they work within, not across.
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Excellent set of tweets. Nobody wants to stick their neck out for speculative unproven perspectives. The game is to signal technical prowess.
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