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Re:On Cultures That Build by eindiran on Friday June 19, 2020 @07:07PM (#23579776)
I remember this article on Wikipedia. Look at what it is now: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia...

A redirect to the article for Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame; unfortunately it appears to have been removed from that page as well. It looks like Crichton is the one who actually came up with the effect, and named it after Gell-Man after discussing it with him.

Here is the page on the edit immediately before being removed from Gell-Mann's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Gell-Mann&...

And here is the best mention of the effect currently in a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeches_by_Michael_Crichton#G...

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Re:On Cultures That Build by war1025 on Friday June 19, 2020 @07:54PM (#23580149)
Doing some more detective work, the history for the actual article is here [1].

Looks like someone named Wugapodes decided it wasn't an article worth having back in August 2019.

Here is a version from August 2018 that looks about like I remember [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia...

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