In my limited experience (quantum chemistry) mature academic fields take up external ideas slowly without a full-time faculty member somewhere putting out a stream of papers, even if those ideas are clear and useful. On the bright side, if Scott Aaronson discusses it in his new course, maybe someone in the UT Austin philosophy department will get inspired..
Well, that’s one way for an older generation to die out, and a new generation to grow up familiar with the new ideas.
In my limited experience (quantum chemistry) mature academic fields take up external ideas slowly without a full-time faculty member somewhere putting out a stream of papers, even if those ideas are clear and useful. On the bright side, if Scott Aaronson discusses it in his new course, maybe someone in the UT Austin philosophy department will get inspired..