I'm not going to debate whether science is near its limits, but I will suggest that, as Kurzweil suggested, it is not far from "here" to where the computers are smarter than us. Those who believe that evolution is an inevitable Law of Nature might want to argue why if something is smarter than us it doesn't inevitably come to be the ruling class. "We" are already too puny to do science without the help of machines, and I can see few scientists who'd turn down the help of a sentient program. Put differently, if the end of science doesn't exist, do we not have to invent it?
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