Scott Alexander Reviews Thiel's Zero to One
&gt; Nowadays people get told that if they think they’ve figured out something about gravity, they’re probably a crackpot. Instead, they should wait for very large government-funded programs full of well-credentialled people to make incremental advances.<p>Maybe we approach limit of human cognitive abilities and another Newton is not possible for current problems? Maybe to find a cure for cancer you need to spend 10k hours studying biology, 10k studying chemistry, 10k studying machine learning and then spend 100k hours on the problem, which it&#x27;s not possible for a human being.