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    Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer Mar 9

    Steve Sailer Retweeted Christopher Chabris

    A lot of important contributions to both sciences and arts are due, in part, to the something unique about the personality of the contributor. That tends to get used up fairly early in the career, after which it's old hat.https://twitter.com/cfchabris/status/972309302957543424 …

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    Christopher ChabrisVerified account @cfchabris
    Scientists should get better at science as they get older. But if this graph is accurate, this assumption is not borne out when measured by timing of their most-cited work. Are they more “outsiders” early in their career, which balances less experience, & these reverse over time? https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/971950939119632384 …
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      2. Monty‏ @Monty_Marmion Mar 10
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Haven't looked at the graph, but I have seen "debunkings" of the "they peak early" idea in relation to mathematics in particular. Seems that many great mathematicians died early, but if they live long enough (it's a hard life!) they can surpass themselves in middle and old age.

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      3. Andrzej Kozlowski‏ @akoz33 Mar 10
        Replying to @Monty_Marmion @Steve_Sailer

        There is no doubt that productivity of mathematicians declines with age but this is only natural & need not reflect declining “mental powers”. Mathematical research requires great concentration. Both, ability to concentrate for long periods & opportunity to do so tend to decline.

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      4. Monty‏ @Monty_Marmion Mar 10
        Replying to @akoz33 @Steve_Sailer

        I'll take your word for it!

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      2. M G‏ @MadaGasp Mar 9
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        This question was addressed by S. Chandrasekhar in his talk at the University of Chicago in 1975. I suggest you read the transcript available online if you haven’t read it already.

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      3. M G‏ @MadaGasp Mar 9
        Replying to @MadaGasp @Steve_Sailer

        The title is ‘Shakespeare, Beethoven and Newton or Patterns of Creativity.’

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      1. james wilson‏ @jamzw2 Mar 11
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Young scientist, some of them, are seeing things with fresh eyes. The same eye that permitted Einstein to part with Maxwell would, in maturity, not permit him to accept that Bohr was onto something. "Science advances one death at a time".

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      1. Douglas Mercer‏ @douglasmercer33 Mar 11
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        it's worse for mathematicians.

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      1. Joseph Bevilacqua‏ @joebev49 Mar 10
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        It's a poor use of the mind to value only discovery, or to want only to innovate. Maturity brings this relative poverty into proper perspective.

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      1. iFrank‏ @WillTell999 Mar 10
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        the young are ambitious, idealistic, energetic and have a fast CPU. time steals all that away.

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      1. The Hand and Foot‏ @VeryJonesVery Mar 9
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        In the arts, unlike the sciences, you can draw on experience for inspiration. People keep having experiences over the course of a lifetime. They don't keep having "aha" moments about the nature of gravity or whatever after 25or whenever. Just one of those thangs.

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      1. Clayton Forrester‏ @warpfactor13 Mar 9
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Most human achievement is basically an attempt to impress girls. That urge diminishes with age.

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      1. Chris Reynolds‏ @Crey1959 Mar 9
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Being productive early in life is evolutionarily adaptive. Kanazawa has explained it well.

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      1. Gab.ai/Firetooth‏ @johann_theron Mar 9
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        Hubris is a terrible thing.

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