Because TFP slowdown is framed as idea exhaustion, R&D policy appetite shifts. Competing claims about whether 'ideas are running out' steer funding, talent immigration, and deregulation priorities by reframing what’s possible from innovation-led growth.
— This narrative conditions support for industrial policy, research subsidies, and regulatory reform, affecting how governments pursue productivity and living-standard gains.
Ross Pomeroy
2025.08.20
60% relevant
The claim that the "real bottleneck" in consciousness research is a shortage of good ideas reframes progress as idea-limited rather than data/compute-limited, shaping funding narratives and expectations.
Alex Hochuli
2025.08.20
73% relevant
Its decadence framing—low productivity growth and economic stagnation—leverages the broader 'ideas are running out' narrative to recast today’s economy as post-capitalist or feudal, influencing appetite for industrial policy and anti-monopoly interventions.
Jason Crawford
2025.08.19
78% relevant
Crawford contests the 'ideas are running out' framing by asserting continued exponential progress and compounding conveniences, urging a cultural narrative that expands support for ambitious R&D and technology—directly engaging the politics of how innovation potential is framed to justify policy.
Jason Crawford
2025.06.19
100% relevant
The piece rejects 'we’re out of big ideas' using growth theory and TFP, directly contesting the idea-scarcity framing.