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What Michael Nielsen Thinks About Basically Everything

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Is There a Decrease in Scientific Progress?

A few months ago, you and Patrick Carlson released an article that talked about sort of the rate of scientific innovation. I think both of us had a strong conviction, which is borne out by what we found, that there have been really enormous diminishing returns. It's taking a lot more effort to get ideas of similar or lower quality. But in the case of science, I believe it's true.

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