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the reverse renaissance

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 17:12:02 2020 No.11752768 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11752787 >>11752834

does anyone think that science is stagnating because of big tech drying up all the talent for scientific fields because of how much better the careers for software engineering and finance are?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2020 17:20:04 No.11752787 Report

Quoted By: >>11752796 >>11752834 >>11752921

>>11752768
I think the problem is we are pushing the limits of the human brain. We have amassed so much information that in order you catch up to state of the art you have to focus on narrower and narrower areas.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2020 17:23:56 No.11752796 Report

Quoted By: >>11752921

>>11752787
Yeah that's true.

All the renaissance scientists all kept head to desk for a while i'd imagine. Not as many distractions as today.

No noisy cars.

Picture it. A quiet country house and garden in the 1600s just your mind and knowledge to ponder.

Whereas today the world feels made up of mania.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2020 17:27:41 No.11752802 Report

Quoted By: >>11752921

Not really no. The guys just being code monkeys will not have had the will or guts to do science anyways, they'll have become engineers that built bridges and shit 100 years ago.
Nothing is lost.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2020 17:39:56 No.11752834 Report

Quoted By: >>11752841 >>11752921

>>11752787
>>11752768
>T. people not involved in science or academia who haven’t studied history or the development of science at all
People said the same shit when trying to solve the black body problem and right before they disproved luminiferous aether.
Fuck, dumb fucks have been saying this kind of shit since they were able to record their tard ramblings in writing on clay bricks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2020 17:41:39 No.11752841 Report

Quoted By: >>11752848 >>11752921 >>11752942

>>11752834
>>T. people not involved in science or academia who haven’t studied history or the development of science at all
I have a degree in physics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2020 17:43:47 No.11752848 Report

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>>11752841
So does Tooker

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2020 18:10:48 No.11752921 Report

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>>11752787
hmmm, but we also have more access to information. the brain is limited but we have tools to overcome that.

>>11752796
different social conditions as well. to pursue science you have to be rich or shackle yourself in debt now

>>11752802
i wonder how many genuinely smart people are working on meaningless shit at big tech though
i don't think i'm smart enough to push the field, i don't think i care enough, but software vs academia, it's much comfier to burn out writing web apps

>>11752834
>T. people not involved in science or academia who haven’t studied history or the development of science at all
i mean, yeah. i don't know anyone who pursued a hard science so i'm far removed from it. part of me keeps wondering if i should have

>>11752841
what do you do now?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2020 18:19:45 No.11752942 Report

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>>11752841
>I have a degree in physics.

Ah, without the degree where would you be?

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