As people age, they become less flexible in their beliefs and more set in their ways. If they are highly influential, then it’s difficult to make progress when they are still alive.
“Science advances one funeral at a time” → this seems to be both generally not true as well as being a harmful meme (because it is a common argument used to argue against life extension research).
I think in practice roughly the opposite is true.
As people age, they become less flexible in their beliefs and more set in their ways. If they are highly influential, then it’s difficult to make progress when they are still alive.
Science advances one funeral at a time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck’s_principle
It’s true that as you age you accumulate experience, and this stops when you die. For you, death is or course a hard limit on knowledge.
For the world, it’s much less clear.
“Science advances one funeral at a time” → this seems to be both generally not true as well as being a harmful meme (because it is a common argument used to argue against life extension research).
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fsSoAMsntpsmrEC6a/does-blind-review-slow-down-science