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[kazagistar]

Does more scientists actually help? Maybe in some of these examples, the science is bottlenecked by significant diminishing returns.

[tlb → kazagistar]

Science has both diminishing and accelerating returns. Diminishing because of duplication of effort, accelerating because large projects need lots of people. 1 scientist can't build a LIGO detector in any number of years. Across all the disciplines, linear seems like a good approximation.