Re:Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
by bee_rider on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @01:07PM
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He missed most of the actual Soviet agents, though, right? Both seem to have mostly focused building up a lie to suppress some outside-the-norm element that the guy in charge wanted to hunt. That McCarthy also managed to have some real agents to miss is not a big difference.
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Re:Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
by aeneasmackenzie on Thursday September 05, 2024 @10:22AM
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So you claim it was a total coincidence he went after Soviet agents? The witch analogy here is that there are real witches but they are so powerful/well hidden witch hunters cannot find them and are diverted to patsies. This wouldn't mean witch hunting is bad, just that we needed better witch hunters.