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From 19.45 to 22.04: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-L690pQhuo Here's a transcription of what Smolin says, *Does it matter that we let go of the attempt to pursue a concept of objective reality/objective truth. It's clear that's what Smolin is talking about if you rewind the video 30 seconds or so from where I've transcribed. It's very clear to me that Smolin is concerned that giving up on a concept of objective reality, when wielded by political minds, can turn into an excuse for 'everything goes'. It's nothing to do with elite scientists thwarting young, creative scientists when/if they're trying to push their ideas forward.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ayn-rand-writes-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer

Swansont. Trust me and watch the video. Lee goes on for a while on the whole concept of quantum mechanics and How the Copenhagen interpretation is the prevailing philosophy in physics. He’s a realist and thinks the top physiatrist are lunatics. Not physiatrist I meant physicist. Bloody autocorrect. The lecture is “Einstein’s unfinished revolution”

Peterkin. The top dogs do not allow good ideas to take over their own ideas. You may want to live in a reality that is just and fair but it’s not as u say here. And here you say the elders keep the young one in check. Exactly. The elders make sure the young ones only make progress in the elders theories and not their own new radical ideas no matter how good the ideas are. Again I’m going to say trust me, I know, I saw. Another point to make here is that physicists claim to have revealed nature as it is with their theories but the truth is they have figured out how to expose nature in one of the many ways it can reveal itself. So long as their sponsors make money from the theories technologies than why change anything. Why look for something better if what you have is working, unless the better idea is from the same group in charge, of course.

There are top physicists that have great ideas to progress scientific progress but are held back by the very top. The very top physicists choose to continuously pursue established but old theories mainly to their own benefit. Only when they die off will a whole new generation of physicists take over and pursue new ideas. In other words, the direction and pace of human evolution is controlled by very few people with a personal agenda.