I mean, this is the nature of hype, including scientific paradigms, fast fashion, music tastes. But this narrative obscures underlying causes and basically assu

I mean, this is the nature of hype, including scientific paradigms, fast fashion, music tastes. But this narrative obscures underlying causes and basically assumes the underlying cause is human love of hype. However, this isn’t a 2d circle as you imply, but a 3d spiral: you do learn over time. You can see which patterns apply to which problems. There’s a tendancy in these narratives to bemoan the individual that represents culture, but the real pain is that you’re watching people learn things you already learned, and there’s this irrational reaction where you think “i learned this already; so should have they.” But none of this implies that we are losing knowledge, just that the curve of engineers is fatter at the inexperienced level.