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Re:If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011) by aglavine on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:30AM (#21546194)
Leonardo Da Vinci is a good counter example. He wasn't organized at all and neither were his collaborators. A lot of his science breakthroughs went on unknown until somebody else totally unrelated did the same.
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Re:If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011) by _jal on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:39AM (#21546278)
Counter example of what?

> A lot of his science breakthroughs went on unknown

I suppose if one's goal is solipsistic research, that would be fine. (We know that wasn't Da Vinci's goal, though.)

To put it a different way, suppose I have solved AGI and never told anyone.

... What good have I done?

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Re:If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011) by vastoi on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:30PM (#21549789)
Depending ones feelings about AGI, you might have saved the humans from extinction by keeping it to yourself.
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