I’ve seen this type of an argument before and it seems not just skeptical for the sake of it but super lazy. The main reason for progress is that people with outdated ideas die and if they don’t, the progress will end - that’s the best we can do? A bastardization of Max Plank’s idea, ad hominem, (justifiable) criticism of western approach to death, and anti-capitalist motives all blended into some kind of pro-death philosophy? Maybe let’s reform how science operates to promote innovation in hundreds of possible ways instead of telling billions to die because of an idea if we don’t have to? And is the quickest innovation necessarily even a good goal? AGI presents serious dangers.