Re:On the Nature of Time
by adastra22 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:17AM
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It is simpler than that. Wolfram has a long history of plagiarizing ideas and passing them off as his own.
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Re:On the Nature of Time
by mensetmanusman on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:36AM
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That’s the history of 99.9999% of ideas based on the average token generation rate of humanity.
Re:On the Nature of Time
by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:41AM
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The mother of someone who was a friend in the 90s used to always pepper her speech with attributions for almost everything she was saying (in any "serious" conversation). "I think it was Popper who said ..." "Schenk developed this idea that ...")
It was * so * annoying to listen to.
We should hold dinner-table conversations and scientific letters to different standards.
Real scientists tend to try to be careful about attribution and especially don't just blatantly regurgitate the last thing they read and pass it off as their own. That is highly frowned upon in polite academic society.