No, ideas are not getting hard to find. Ideas are getting harder to discuss.
There has never been such a ripe time to find such ample reason to propose and discuss new and radical ideas. And there has never been such a hostile time to looking into it.
In physics we’ve lost 50-70 years to string theory and related nonsense and the people still working on effective quantum field theories have had to re-brand as working on “quantum information / quantum computing” to stay in rent and lab desks. There aren’t many serious QFT people who doubt Everettian epistemology but it’s still nothing undergraduates hear about. Most serious non-string gravity work comes out of Perimeter and Marletto/Deutsch.
In economics and finance we still put our hand into the sink shredder of the Chicago-style strong-form EMH, as resoundingly and empirically disproved by Simons (may he rest). And we continue to embrace Friedman-style supply side economic policy, without peer the nastiest wealth transfer from those with surplus away from those facing scarcity at the barrel of a gun in absolute terms ever. It never trickles down.
In the fundamental epistemology of our day we are surrendering the reigns of influence to people who market chat bots trained to lie convincingly at scale.
Knowledge, and the new ideas that approximate at the limit the derivative of knowledge are under attack. They’re under attack by some rich guy’s choice for the job he did well and decided to keep in the family.
There has never been such a ripe time to find such ample reason to propose and discuss new and radical ideas. And there has never been such a hostile time to looking into it.
In physics we’ve lost 50-70 years to string theory and related nonsense and the people still working on effective quantum field theories have had to re-brand as working on “quantum information / quantum computing” to stay in rent and lab desks. There aren’t many serious QFT people who doubt Everettian epistemology but it’s still nothing undergraduates hear about. Most serious non-string gravity work comes out of Perimeter and Marletto/Deutsch.
In economics and finance we still put our hand into the sink shredder of the Chicago-style strong-form EMH, as resoundingly and empirically disproved by Simons (may he rest). And we continue to embrace Friedman-style supply side economic policy, without peer the nastiest wealth transfer from those with surplus away from those facing scarcity at the barrel of a gun in absolute terms ever. It never trickles down.
In the fundamental epistemology of our day we are surrendering the reigns of influence to people who market chat bots trained to lie convincingly at scale.
Knowledge, and the new ideas that approximate at the limit the derivative of knowledge are under attack. They’re under attack by some rich guy’s choice for the job he did well and decided to keep in the family.