As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern

Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by dylan604 on Friday May 17, 2019 @11:22AM (#19940432)

looking at the data, it’s like we’re trying our damndest to be last. Defunding education, limiting what can be taught (ex: Texas removing critical thinking), etc all seem like we just enjoy tripping on our own shoe laces

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by Supermancho on Friday May 17, 2019 @11:31AM (#19940530)

You're focusing on the wrong scale. Intelligence has skyrocketed in the past thousand years. Policy decisions in our lifetime, do not matter or they end all human matters at once.

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by moate on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:23PM (#19941651)

Certain policy decisions matter on a larger scale. Killing off millions of people has to have some meaning on future abilities, right?

I think that generally I agree with you, but I would tend to say you have a small (but >0) number of things that would have huge long term ripples.

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by JudgeWapner on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:49PM (#19941323)

> Defunding education, limiting what can be taught

Many people became educated and even advanced science before the government got involved in education.

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by JackFr on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:17PM (#19943647)

Indeed who's to say if the current worldview we share is a knowledge maximizing one.

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