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> Any argument that starts with "I don't think it can be done" is a losing argument. But plenty of interesting opinions start that way -- interesting because s
by TimTheTinker 5y ago
> Any argument that starts with "I don't think it can be done" is a losing argument.
But plenty of interesting opinions start that way -- interesting because someone with expertise thinks so, and/or because the opinion is followed by well-reasoned arguments.
OTOH, "it can't be done" is often based on current assumptions about hard limits. Those assumptions have been broken routinely and consistently for hundreds of years now.