There’s definitely some truth to this, but I guess I’m skeptical that there isn’t anything that we can do about some of these challenges. Actually, rereading I can see that you’ve conceded this towards the end of your post. I agree that there might be a limit to how much progress we can make on these issues, but I think we shouldn’t rule out making progress too quickly.
To be clear, I don’t intend to argue that the problem is too hard or not worthwhile or whatever. Rather, my main point is that solutions need to grapple with the problems of teaching people to create new paradigms, and working with people who don’t share standard frames. I expect that attempts to mimic the traditional pipelines of paradigmatic fields will not solve those problems. That’s not an argument against working on it, it’s just an argument that we need fundamentally different strategies than the standard education and career paths in other fields.
To be clear, I don’t intend to argue that the problem is too hard or not worthwhile or whatever. Rather, my main point is that solutions need to grapple with the problems of teaching people to create new paradigms, and working with people who don’t share standard frames. I expect that attempts to mimic the traditional pipelines of paradigmatic fields will not solve those problems. That’s not an argument against working on it, it’s just an argument that we need fundamentally different strategies than the standard education and career paths in other fields.