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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by moonchrome on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:13AM (#36812435)
To be fair most of "revolutionary" ideas are quackery so it's a good heuristic.
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by jstanley on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:22AM (#36812969)
It's a good heuristic if you just want to be right more often, but if you want to find new good ideas then it'll rule out every single one of them.

Related: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by moonchrome on Friday July 21, 2023 @06:45PM (#36820978)
This implies new ideas have to be revolutionary ? It's usually possible to progress in the existing direction. Science advances one funeral at a time and all that jazz.
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by 3cats-in-a-coat on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:48AM (#36814453)
With such a heuristic, if you seek food, and most of your environment is not food, so you dismiss your entire environment as not food, and refuse to seek, you die :)
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