Rephrasing what you are saying to check if I am understanding: Conceptual progress has slowed down, because most research is bottlenecked on ontology. If we made progress on that, we would see more new notations. As an example you bring up the mental disorders, where people are more concerned about the politics of diagnosis, than understanding the underlying reason why “autism” is a thing (or how many distinct things are behind that label). I feel like the sequences actually are pretty great for the ontology stuff? Or at least I can’t think of anything better I’ve read. Like noticing confusion is a great skill with no skill ceiling in sight. The sequence on words taught me a bunch about semantics that seems like it is important for that type of stuff. I am pretty curious what is up with this Barry Smith guy now though, so if you have some specific reading recommendations from him and maybe you can even pitch what particular skill with regards to ontology you feel better at after reading him that would be great.
Rephrasing what you are saying to check if I am understanding: Conceptual progress has slowed down, because most research is bottlenecked on ontology. If we made progress on that, we would see more new notations. As an example you bring up the mental disorders, where people are more concerned about the politics of diagnosis, than understanding the underlying reason why “autism” is a thing (or how many distinct things are behind that label). I feel like the sequences actually are pretty great for the ontology stuff? Or at least I can’t think of anything better I’ve read. Like noticing confusion is a great skill with no skill ceiling in sight. The sequence on words taught me a bunch about semantics that seems like it is important for that type of stuff. I am pretty curious what is up with this Barry Smith guy now though, so if you have some specific reading recommendations from him and maybe you can even pitch what particular skill with regards to ontology you feel better at after reading him that would be great.