Pressure from peers to conform to established paradigms does suppress the development of new approaches. And it's true that pushing back against that is not goo

Pressure from peers to conform to established paradigms does suppress the development of new approaches. And it's true that pushing back against that is not good for your social standing. Interesting article, but not sure he really needed to read two books to figure that out. Speaking of new paradigms and the states of mind necessary to push the limits of human knowledge, I feel that is going to be one of the last stands for AI-pessimists. But I also suspect that it will quickly fall. So I anticipate the relevant articles five or ten years from now will be about getting into a state of mind where you can understand what the hell the latest genius AI agents are talking about. They will eventually conclude that the only option is a state-of-the-art high-bandwidth brain-computer interface.