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Plenty of people think they're at the boundary and pushing but are actually stuck at a (close in) local maxima of crackpottery.
The real geniuses never even see a boundary. They just do their thing and let everyone else put labels on it later.
That is true in many cases in Academia as well.
Plenty of people think they're at the boundary and pushing but are actually stuck at a (close in) local maxima of crackpottery.
The real geniuses never even see a boundary. They just do their thing and let everyone else put labels on it later.