Elon Musk ‘Made a Bet for the Ages’

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Didn’t Max Planck say something like society advances one piece of debris at a time?

“Science advances one funeral at a time.”

One funeral at a time

Does science advance one funeral at a time? https://campuspress.yale.edu/humanbrain/does-science-advance-one-funeral-at-a-time/ A pithy restatement of Planck’s observation is that science advances one funeral at a time. But is this really true? Azoulay and colleagues attempted to find out and presented their results in a 2019 study in the American Economic Review. These authors developed a clever approach by which they investigated the consequences of the premature death of a scientific supers…