From 0 to 80% is “easy”. To then expect to go 160% in the same is like lunacy.
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Are we still at 80%? It is much harder to build a train or a mile of subway than in 1970, or to fly to the moon, or to test a new psychiatric medication, or to get research funding for a new idea in foundational physics. At the same time academia seems full of ideological bs
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Could it be the government suppression of technology?
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Signal to noise ratio in publications, pace of research. More reading, thinking. Less information to process. More time to process is. Synthesis vs replication.
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Almost nobody is thinking. People are too busy publishing and applying for grants, and all thoughts are being interrupted by beeping noises
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After reading this and all the comments I wonder whether this was just you looking for new progress that is impressive by stating something people would love to correct with (hopefully) examples? And if not discussion about it regardless.
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Except for the biologists, there was little disagreement? (Fwiw, AI may have had only 3 new ideas since 1970, but together with better hardware, they make a lot of difference, and may change science dramatically soon.)
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Maybe lack of ideological competition has some part in that. The need to prove one side is better than the other.
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No, the ancients already knew that ALL ideology is bs and has to be kept out of science
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