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What Michael Nielsen Thinks About Basically Everything
Village Global Podcast
Are We Not as Ambitious as We Used to Be?
Peter Halton: I think it's something along the lines of collective, cultural lowering of ambition in some sense. Has that happened in science too? Are we not as ambitious as we used to be? There's an interesting force which is the force of specialization. If you increase the number of people in a field, there's a natural following pressure to specialize more.
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