/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6543817

forgot my pic

>>6525125

The concept isn't false. It happened. It was the industrial revolution.

People just want science fiction to be true as much as some other people want the bible to be true. They're both wrong. Technological progress has peaked and very shortly the effects of the diminishing returns, not exponential development, of this progress means that people won't be able to live long enough to discover anything worth giving them a nobel.

Arguments based on recalcitrance do not apply, nor do prognostications from the past being wrong apply. Unless you think there is just as much chance that thermodynamics is completely wrong as there is for Jesus.

>>6505601

>We can't get funding for our research

>say it does something from science fiction

>oh my god look at all this funding and our Io9 article is the top on /r/futurology!

Lying for science is the new norm. Kids who were told a whole bunch of bullshit by hippie scientists are now wasting assloads of money and are causing a new generation of kids to see science as a wish granting machine that is ticking off science fiction's laundry list.

The singularity happened. Humanity has peaked. Look at how desperate people are. They can't even live long enough to earn a Nobel.

>>6483730

That's not even mentioning how much physics itself sets diminishing returns.

We've reached the bottom of the barrel in just a few thousand years. Thanks universe!

Remember, we're no more the masters of the universe than we are the reason for its inception.

>>6476656

Good for you. Nothing supports it.