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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Would you notice if science died? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 09 March 2016 07:22:48PM 1 point [-]

That we have only tentative evidence that science hasn't stalled from engineering productiveness.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 March 2016 08:07:31PM 0 points [-]

Why would you care about that when you can go and look at science directly, without trying to proxy it with engineering success?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 09 March 2016 08:11:19PM 1 point [-]

When you can reliably determine whether science has stalled then this argument isn't relevant. Some might disagree on that. I point out that in absence of evidence of science stalling or not we can't rely on current engineering output as a proxy. That's all.