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I hope the solar system is someday home to a trillion people. We need more minds working on the problems the universe presents to us. If humans won’t step up to
by throwuwu 3y ago
I hope the solar system is someday home to a trillion people. We need more minds working on the problems the universe presents to us. If humans won’t step up to that challenge then maybe our silicon offspring will.
- brutusborn 3y agoI used to have similar hopes, but I think our first priority must be increasing efficiency of research. Consider the transition to open access; it is still a minority of research effort so many researchers waste untold resources reinventing the wheel. Also the incentives to publish mean a lot of fields consist of people writing papers for the sake of writing papers, without much progress towards anything resembling novel ideas