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It's also important to distinguish between things that turn out to be crap in retrospect and things that can be known to be crap given the information available
by lisper 5y ago
It's also important to distinguish between things that turn out to be crap in retrospect and things that can be known to be crap given the information available at the time. Those are two very different things. Yes, alchemy is crap, but there's no way Newton could have known that given the data he had at his disposal at the time.
- WalterBright 5y ago> things that can be known to be crap given the information available at the time Sometimes people do investigate the crap, and discover it's actually fertilizer. The trouble is, one cannot tell in advance.
- lambdatronics 5y agoYou understate your point. Many advances were 'known' in advance to be crap.