The concepts in this post are, quite possibly, the core question I’ve been thinking about for the past couple years. I didn’t just get them from this post (a lot of them come up naturally in LW team discussions), and I can’t quite remember how counterfactual this post was in my thinking.
But it’s definitely one of the clearer writeups about a core question to people who’re thinking about intellectual progress, and how to improve.
The question is murky – it’s not obvious whether science is actually slowing down to me, and there are multiple plausible hypotheses which suggest different courses of action. But this post at least gave me some additional hooks for how to think about this.
The concepts in this post are, quite possibly, the core question I’ve been thinking about for the past couple years. I didn’t just get them from this post (a lot of them come up naturally in LW team discussions), and I can’t quite remember how counterfactual this post was in my thinking.
But it’s definitely one of the clearer writeups about a core question to people who’re thinking about intellectual progress, and how to improve.
The question is murky – it’s not obvious whether science is actually slowing down to me, and there are multiple plausible hypotheses which suggest different courses of action. But this post at least gave me some additional hooks for how to think about this.