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Re:The Illusion of Certainty by LiquidSky on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:35PM (#22974112)
>This essay asks the question, why are larger organizations so bad at performing feats of brilliance most of the time?

I'm not sure I buy this premise: Menlo Park, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, major universities, the US military/government. Giant organizations like these provided enormous innovation and discovery in the last century. Maybe they don't anymore, but the question of why isn't the same as proclaiming "larger organizations [are] so bad at performing feats of brilliance most of the time".

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Re:The Illusion of Certainty by mellow2020 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:36AM (#22977164)
"giant" != "brilliant", and the question why something is the case does imply the statement that it is the case. You say you don't buy the premise, but then say that maybe it's true.
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