“I personally accept the fact that it’s really status that motivates me, and think to myself “it’s better to do the right thing for the wrong reasons than not to do the right thing at all!”.”
I think it’s a bit sad that status is one of the strongest motivators in discovery (and work in general). If it’s not discovery/knowledge that you genuinely aim for, you might e.g. refuse to hire a new promising researcher/ purposely withhold information/ start to make all kinds of political plots etc.. I’d hope ppl would honestly think about their motivations. Is the status/power you’re after just a method of achieving something else etc.?
“Physics could at some point be completely solved, which is to say that at some point, there would be no further knowledge that would ever allow us to do anything new, to make any better a prediction, to do anything more efficiently, etc.”
It seems to me that ppl have a tendency to overstate their knowledge. What does a slug know about physics? Respectively, what does a human know about (possible) 101th dimension or travel through time or any of the stuff some posthuman might do “physics” about.
“I personally accept the fact that it’s really status that motivates me, and think to myself “it’s better to do the right thing for the wrong reasons than not to do the right thing at all!”.”
I think it’s a bit sad that status is one of the strongest motivators in discovery (and work in general). If it’s not discovery/knowledge that you genuinely aim for, you might e.g. refuse to hire a new promising researcher/ purposely withhold information/ start to make all kinds of political plots etc.. I’d hope ppl would honestly think about their motivations. Is the status/power you’re after just a method of achieving something else etc.?
“Physics could at some point be completely solved, which is to say that at some point, there would be no further knowledge that would ever allow us to do anything new, to make any better a prediction, to do anything more efficiently, etc.”
It seems to me that ppl have a tendency to overstate their knowledge. What does a slug know about physics? Respectively, what does a human know about (possible) 101th dimension or travel through time or any of the stuff some posthuman might do “physics” about.