mattnewport comments on Science - Idealistic Versus Signaling - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 09 December 2009 07:29:54PM 1 point [-]

The tendency to think that the golden age of scientific progress is past seems to me like an example of pessimistic bias. This particular bias is extremely common but not something I've seen discussed much here.