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It's probably true. Given enough time and people, someone's going to do it. You just gotta look at ancient civs and how they often would independently come up
by aaron-lebo 9y ago
It's probably true. Given enough time and people, someone's going to do it. You just gotta look at ancient civs and how they often would independently come up with really complex stuff. Given the spread of knowledge since that time, some discoveries might be easier.
Billions of people over hundreds of years produces lots of opportunities.
- rglullis 9y agoThis was not OP's argument. The argument is that we could have replaced Feynman with whoever was second-best-yet-not-a-chauvinist-pig, and we would get exactly the same outcome, sans sexism.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoThat's one way of reading it, sure.