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I know people who were working on, what is now called, Libra at FB more than a year ago though. The paper was published a year ago. This just looks like a case
by vitno 7y ago
I know people who were working on, what is now called, Libra at FB more than a year ago though. The paper was published a year ago. This just looks like a case of multiple people having the same idea.
- RobLach 7y agoYou can also be working on something and a paper comes along that fills in some gaps in your concept you may or may not have been aware of.
- yodaml 7y agoIt may just be another case of the "adjacent possible" principle at work.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago"Adjacent possible" is the case of one of the weirdest possible definition for a very simple concept. I see people quoting this: "The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself." (Whatever the hell that means.) Even though the concept is much simpler: "adjacent possible" is the set of things within reach. Or: all the things on the border between what we have, and what we could have.