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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hold my quadruple espresso
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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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Access to knowledge, which I think is a partial answer. I think that's actually a very important and overlooked element. And tracks well with my conception, that it's only possible in environments that allow for a variety of conjectures to be made (free thought/expression)...
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and some reliable method of selecting for stronger conjectures by ruling out weaker ones via experiment and argument. The discomfort you reference I think manifests as argument that the new conjecture is better than the current one & should be used while the old one is discarded.
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