Slight downvote because I don’t think this is what EAs should focus on. The claim that we could make academic knowledge 50% simpler isn’t well-evidenced in the article, and the area seems quite intractable for reasons explained in the article.
Fair comment. The 50% business was just a hypothetical thought experiment to illustrate a possibility, not a figure with any evidence behind it! But I do think that the problem of knowledge getting more and more complicated is a serious problem and will become more so in the future. If people can’t see what’s going on, fake news will thrive.
Slight downvote because I don’t think this is what EAs should focus on. The claim that we could make academic knowledge 50% simpler isn’t well-evidenced in the article, and the area seems quite intractable for reasons explained in the article.
Fair comment. The 50% business was just a hypothetical thought experiment to illustrate a possibility, not a figure with any evidence behind it! But I do think that the problem of knowledge getting more and more complicated is a serious problem and will become more so in the future. If people can’t see what’s going on, fake news will thrive.