Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Scientific Progress is Slowing Down. But Why?" video.

  1. Yes,I think there is a downward trend to real breakthroughs in science, in the physical sciences in particular. Exceptions are emerging nanotechnology (not really a thing yet). AI which is learning more slowly than we hoped (this is a good thing; AI is still uncontrollably dangerous to do us much long-term good. How? Military research using AI plus no Azimov Robotics laws limiting self-will and fiat decisions).Astrophysics is bounding ahead thanks to the JWT (I wish I stayed I the field), and genetics is going quite well. Actually, overall Science is doing better than I initially hoped. Not as many new ground-breaking inventions as the mid-twentieth century, like the transistor, then silicon wafer chips; very ground breaking. Even more ground breaking was antibiotics in the 1940s. Disruptive inventions developments are not going so well anymore. Large once-off projects, like the Apollo Program, helped develop space exploration for humans, but we have proved how expensive and difficult to manage that was (yes, Mr Musk), and relatively high engineering but low science value that was as well.
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  2. I extremely agree with that proposal
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  3. No Brain Soap, very interesting, but kind of proving a Eurocentric view of science, I.e. only white people do that. Completely unreasonable when we considered how advanced China got by the 14th century, and how behind Europe had instead got after the fall of the library of Alexanderia in the 4th century AD.
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