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Diminishing returns in research are not intrinsic to the world: they are what you get when the institutions around research stop changing.

Drawn from what Michael Nielsen said

S-curves and diminishing returns

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  1. Michael Nielsen Physicist, writer and researcher
    If you're not changing it, if there's some kind of stagnation there, if you're not changing those external sort of circumstances, yes, like you may start to get sort of diminishing returns again. But that doesn't mean there's anything intrinsic about the situation.

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