Who has generated a Darwin-level insight in biology in the past two decades?
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it’s a fair question. my gut is there’s something innate about fields having initial periods of rapid discovery followed by diminishing returns. I think there’s a Nick Bloom paper on this. braking out of this is probably generationally important
If my incredibly poor recollection of the nick bloom paper which may or may not exist is correct: I think the assertion was the easiest way to fix this is to increase rate of creation of new fields to artificially stack these high productivity periods
