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Wyvern's avatar

“You don't get it bro. Embryo selection, gene editing and pronatalism will raise the mean IQ of the population to 140 and we will be able to double or even triple the number of productive researchers every decade. Trust the tech oligarchs.”

Philippe Bridau's avatar

There’s some things which can’t happen and other things which simply won’t happen, as in they’re not impossible they’re just not going to happen because of various political and other circumstances

Magical Realist's avatar

This is generally agreeable with what work I've done and the education I've received in material sciences.

I look at people who complain that useful papers have been declining for a long time in proportion, and perhaps it may be that useful papers are just too difficult to produce. Every scientist could be acting in good faith and still coming up short due to hard physical limits. And the only issue with the scientific system is that perhaps it isn't built with this fact in mind.

Philippe Bridau's avatar

That’s largely what I believe, although obviously I don’t think our research system is 100 percent efficient

Michael's avatar

Extremely convincing position.

The book "Post Historic Man" by Roderick Siedenburg is an interesting thought experiment of what implications this reality has on the future of humanity. I highly recommend the book and it is wholly aligned with this kind of thought.

Philippe Bridau's avatar

Thank you very much