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Scientific Progress Is Not Exploding
If you look at science, what you see is the picture of a system that is consuming an exponentially increasing amount of resources. But it's having a linear output in terms of scientific progress. And even though science is recursively self-improving, this doesn't mean technological progress can be sped up. The next generation of researchers will have to dig much harder and make smaller discoveries.