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Diminishing returns in science is a snapshot illusion: somebody keeps restocking the table, and new fields make progress easy again.
Drawn from what Michael Nielsen said
Mental modelS-curves and diminishing returns
What Michael Nielsen actually said
- Michael Nielsen Physicist, writer and researcher
if somebody, you know, is standing behind the dessert table and is replenishing, restocking the desserts and keeps kind of you know, adding adding new ones in, it may turn out that you know, a little bit later a much better desserts appear.
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Watch from 1:00:16 plays here↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com
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