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Are We Living in a Dark Age? Bret Speaks with Steve Patterson
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Diminishing returns in a field
i think all this is a consequence of that diminishing return piece that i was discussing with you, because of the way generations of academics happen. Early evolutionary biologists came up with the idea that reproductive success was the the core of a fitness and then they teach their students that. And for every puzzle where they're not the same thing, you're now a confused fool. It also seems to be as bad as so many thinkers are, that sometimes the originators of useful concepts were perfectly aware of the imitations of their theory. Einstein was like this. He called his own theory potentially a castle in the sky. That happens everywhereand comin back to mathematicsthat's one of my, my
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