You saying a random computer scientist doesn’t need to have an opinion on P-NP is the fundamental problem here. Everyone specializes in one narrow thing and is

You saying a random computer scientist doesn’t need to have an opinion on P-NP is the fundamental problem here. Everyone specializes in one narrow thing and is incentivized and programmed to think of the world only through it. Carl Sagan was not just great at outreach but also doing good science. You can watch his cosmos show half a decade later and think wait what exactly have we discovered new since then and draw a blank. Taking a photo of the black hole is great but if that’s all you have as progress for All of humanity in 50 years then think for yourself. penrose and Hawking are alright but I didn’t mention penrose thanks to him becoming a crackpot in recent times. Point is such folks are few and far. I’m not convinced we have gotten dumber, but it’s definitely true that we have been programmed into complacency in the imagination department.