In a thread discussing why there are no "modern day Einsteins", anon hypothesized ideology has buck broken 21st century scientific thought. >What is your advice for scientists trying to incur free thought and non conformity in an ever-conforming academia?It can be anything - an experience, a book, abstination etc. Please give your insights!
>>16929999My insight is for you to kill yourself.
>>16930017Not going to happen gangstalker!
indie here, don't be afraid of academia, and traditional publishing it is there for a reasonwould you rather be weinstein (not published), or pearlman (arxiv) and einstein (office clerk) published
>>16930023I would rather be Epstein
>>16930025most people here are epsteins, some passing knowledge, no real work
>>16930029Human brain is no longer sufficient to make new discoveries or inventions. Computing and machine learning need to be developed further.
>>16930033no, it's just dogma, and outsider perspective is mostly shunned, the margin is small but progress can be made, just be patient
>>16930033>humans cant advance knowledge anymore>ML cant advance knowledge on its own yet>thus, humans have to advance machine learningbased retard
>>16930050What I mean is that things that would have taken 50 years to discover or invent can now be discovered or invented in just 5 years. Today, we don’t draw complex mathematical equations on paper and calculate them ourselves—we use calculators. By shifting the burden from the human brain to the machine, we relieve the human brain of that load and save time as well. We’ll soon start reaping the benefits of the investments we’re making in machine learning and computing. In other words, during this era where most things are happening rapidly and are expected to continue doing so, the human brain is lagging behind when it comes to making new discoveries and inventions. That’s what I meant by “sufficient”—we’re not stupid; we just need to accelerate our progress.
I never let on....That I was on a sinking ship....I never held back anything for the return swim....We are on the clock boys and girlsForce it past all this slop, carve through it, burn a fiery path, leave a smoldering wake, big stepper, upon the shoulders of giants we fight to make this cosmic climbWhat do you seek upon the way? Why do you climb?For who? Why should the universe reveal herself to you? With what will you do with it?
One thing I really encourage anyone interested in philosophy to always keep in mind is that, nobody is going to take anything you say you believe in seriously if you only have logical reasons for believing in it, and no personal involvement in it.What I mean is like, someone can be opposed to war in general, and have a well formed ethical argument for why war is unethical. But someone who has served a tour of duty and seen their friends get blown away has a direct, visceral reason to hate war and knows war is wrong through wisdom, not just knowledge.Base your philosophy on wisdom, not just some trivial axiomatic reasoning. Philosophy is "love of wisdom" afterall, is it not? Not "love of knowledge". That's what science is for. They form two sides of a coin, in my opinion.
>>16929999Eliete bloodlines pushed their prodigy spawns too far too early, and they all peaked early, or wound up with too much psychological scrutiny and intervention. Out of a very small demographic, A percentage dulls themselves with hard drugs.A percentage gets burnt out from ridiculous, bad training. A percentage gets random brain damage. The remainder is recruited by Universities and Corporations. Only a teeny-tiny percentage slips through the cracks and is free to have their own identity.
>>16929999The sum of human knowledge used to be limited enough that it was possible for a person to be a true polymath and be an expert in every field of human knowledge that exists in your civilization. That is literally physically impossible today. Knowledge has expanded to the point that individual hyper specific sub-sub-sub fields have more data required to fully understand them than it would have taken for someone in the renaissance to be a master of all fields of science. And it keeps getting worse every day.
