/sci/ - Science & Math

Unironically Capitalism

>>10758533
Too clarify, efficiency and profit are what matter most and people have less free time today. All sense of wonder and curiosity are dead.

>>10758505
I'm a polymath, AMA

>>10758542
How do i become one?

>>10758533
Too clarify, efficiency and profit are what matter most today and people have less free time than before. All sense of wonder and passion are dead. There needs to be a revival in aesthetics for great things to happen again.

>>10758505
The amount of information you need to learn in every field is growing but our lifespans really aren't that much. Nobody wants to be a jack of all trades, master of none. It was easier to be a polymath in the old days because there was less information that had to be learned in order to be considered proficient at something so people had more time to diversify their interests and become good at numerous things.

>>10758533
This. They still exist but they aren't known to exist so nobody notices them.

We're going to remain in hiding until one of creates AI, then we'll take back the world we built for all you brainlets.

>>10758554
It's true that the affect of "capitalism" or personal goals and values is truly immense, the consumeristic and materialistic tendencies in humans are largely rooted in the nature of surviving under conditions of possible resources scarcoty (which is an ingerent component of any ecological environment). People have an intense desire to accumulate property and wealth because they're human. Not because of le ebil "jooish bankers" and capitalism. Again, culture and society certainly contribute, but even the emmergence of capitalism itself can largely be accounted for by the human desire to maximize "utility".

>>10758569
imagine believing this. infornation is more accessible than ever before.

>>10758505
You can still be a polymath. Machine learning is a polymath-esque field

>>10758505
Rich guy 500 years ago: "I've got nothing to do. Guess I can learn stuff or whatever."
Rich guy now: "I've got nothing to do. Guess I'll see what's on TV."

>>10758505
The currebt market for jobs demand it

>>10758604
Still doesn't give you extra time.

>>10758657
People had more free time before

>>10758664
Yes. Yes they did.

>>10758657
More access to well packaged information makes it possible to learn more in a shorter amount of time

>>10758505
Because all fields have advanced to the point where so, so much time is necessary to become proficient and competent in even a single one that becoming competent in multiple is basically impossible unless you are an extraordinary genius. It was easy to be a polymath back in the day when physics was basically just what Aristotle and Galileo told us, and medicine was still based on the four humors, etc.
>>10758533
And that's a good thing

>>10758674
we could use the technology of today to give everyone more free time.

>>10758687
How?

>>10758533
So what would be better?

>>10758542
>>10758553
>AMA
>Still no answer
kek

>>10758542
What do you do?

>>10758701
nationalize companies, democratize the work place, have less working hours, fix the education system to something like finlands. this would bring a big change.

>>10758980
Yeah I agree that we do need to fix the education system. But are the working hours a choice? How would nationalizing companies help? What does democratize the work place look like?

Bump

>>10758505
compartmentalization makes large scale systems easier to control.

Refer to eg the Nazis.

>>10758505
>polymaths in the past now they are very rare. Now if you take literally anyone out of their field of specialization they are a retard. What the fuck is this shit literally no great person was a specialist.
human brain is dumm and the sciences have exploded in the past few hundred years. time and burnout.

>>10759320
They actually brain damage us on purpose. Polymaths are not wanted, they want cattle cogs and actively prevent anything else. Look at all the lost tech that just so happens would have changed the established order, forever.

>>10759331
And adding on, we're pretty much biologically inferior to previous generations. A hard handicap. I try to explain to people how they do this to us, so that we may escape and topple their house of cards.

>>10759293
Why are you bumping? The question has been answered many times over already

>>10758980
>nationalize companies
Based retard.

>>10759377
No it hasn't

>>10758675
I think the point is the amount of information you need to process grows quicker than the means available to you to process it.

You're a big fren

>>10758542
Hey me too.

>>10758971
I read Wikipedia for fun. I have a degree in mechanical engineering and work as a data scientist. John Von Neumann is my idol.