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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.

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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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