/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14529922
Kinda.

>>14529922
All the models are fucked beyond repair we need to start over. Academia is going down hill, humanity is going down hill. No harsh environment => no group selection for intelligence => collective intelligence will decrease => civilization collapse.

>>14529922
It stagnated because the caste has entrenched themselves in positions of authority. There is no possible competition from newcomers.
This applies to (heavily regulated) industry research as well. Promising start-ups are being bought-off and killed by existing industry "leaders" milking old technologies.
All these shenanigans can exists because they are enforced by gaberments (and thus - police) and because financial crooks can supply the other crooks with unlimited quantities of green paper printed with zeros.
The priest/ruling caste has never needed any new technologies or science; it can only endanger their positions.

>>14529984
It might, all of the world's mass-scale science applications are highly limited by energy consumption. But look at how many of those things since the 1950s are only neglected because of pure politics, this could just be feeding energy into a powder keg of irresponsible and brain-dead political decisions. I won't be surprised if inventing productive fusion reactors allows the bad parts of humanity to stay in permanent malignant-cancer mode until a mass die-off from disease or war, of their own design. We're 'over-grown' as it is with useless people and useless research that likes to throttle actual science to make it less threatening. We'll see, depends on a lot of things.

>>14529922
It might, all of the world's mass-scale science applications are highly limited by energy consumption. But look at how many of those things since the 1950s are only neglected because of pure politics, this could just be feeding energy into a powder keg of irresponsible and brain-dead political decisions. I won't be surprised if inventing productive fusion reactors allows the bad parts of humanity to stay in permanent malignant-cancer mode until a mass die-off from disease or war, of their own design. We're 'over-grown' as it is with useless people and useless research that likes to throttle actual science to make it less threatening. We'll see, depends on a lot of things.

>>14529922
Fusion energy is a meme. What people really should currently research is in Thorium reactors.

>>14532874
Will be ready in the next 10 years™ just like fusion

>>14530133
Intellectual property and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

>>14533723
At least thorium reactors are possible with our current tech level as well as the laws of thermodynamics

>>14533723
Will not be ready only because all the research investments can be nullified in a blink of an eye by one decision of a monkey in a governmental position setting the "energy policy".