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Right. Examples of ideas that seemed crazy, were initially treated as implausible, and nevertheless worked out are plentiful, but so are examples of ideas that
by topaz0 5y ago
Right. Examples of ideas that seemed crazy, were initially treated as implausible, and nevertheless worked out are plentiful, but so are examples of ideas that seemed crazy, were initially venerated as the miracle way of the future, and turned out to be complete BS founded on deception.
- bombcar 5y agoAnd because the second group fails (or were outright scams) the record of all of them is lost. We know about the HUGE venture capital failures like pets dot com, but there were thousands more in the $1-10m range nobody cares to even document. Similarly throughout history. The "crazy ideas that actually worked" are talked about because of how rare they are.