The Politics of Science

There's been a sort of Gresham's law at work where the people who are nimble in the art of writing grant applications to governments have replaced the truly great scientists. The eccentric university professor is a species that I think is going extinct very fast, he says. He backs seasteading but still has a long ways to go.

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