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Weinstein did good to not only formulate but to publish. At some point you got to throw caution into the bin and publish what you have to say. This person men

by GDC7 5y ago

Weinstein did good to not only formulate but to publish. At some point you got to throw caution into the bin and publish what you have to say. This person mentioned Einstein, but Einstein was just the byproduct of a time when people had the balls to publish what could be perceived as extravagant theories. Einstein was the one who got it right, but you don't get to hear from him if you don't create an environment in which people like him also felt the confidence to publish stuff that could be considered controversial. People say necessity is the mother of invention, well right after that there's the feeling of being the only one who gets it and that all the others are wrong/clueless. Competitive arrogance is right there at no.2

jrpear 5y ago
> This person mentioned Einstein, but Einstein was just the byproduct of a time when people had the balls to publish what could be perceived as extravagant theories. As an outsider, while I can see many problems in academia today, I'm not sure that an exceptional fear to publish extravagant theories is one of them. It seems to me that the opposite is true. The replication crisis is a symptom of a general unfriendliness towards uninteresting publications.
- loceng 5y ago
  It's tough to gauge if someone's competent or not when they're speaking at a very high level in a domain you know nothing much about, and where very high level is at least an order of magnitude more difficult than high level. For this I've found myself leaking in corollaries such as Eric being able to have old time theoretical physicists on his podcast and having in-depth and flowing conversations with them.
  - gowld 5y ago
    Yes, he knows basic physics. but none of his sketches of novel theory has been substantiated by anyone.
    - nbardy 5y ago
      And they won’t be for a while. That’s why he’s working on it still.
gowld 5y ago
Einstein had a few important but easy to state ideas about the speed of light and gravity, that he analyzed at length with non-controverial comprehensible (to experts) math, and made a bunch of predictions that many scientists verified. The quantum menchics theory was much more controversial, and Einstein opposed it.

by GDC7 5y ago

jrpear 5y ago

> This person mentioned Einstein, but Einstein was just the byproduct of a time when people had the balls to publish what could be perceived as extravagant theories. As an outsider, while I can see many problems in academia today, I'm not sure that an exceptional fear to publish extravagant theories is one of them. It seems to me that the opposite is true. The replication crisis is a symptom of a general unfriendliness towards uninteresting publications.

loceng 5y ago
It's tough to gauge if someone's competent or not when they're speaking at a very high level in a domain you know nothing much about, and where very high level is at least an order of magnitude more difficult than high level. For this I've found myself leaking in corollaries such as Eric being able to have old time theoretical physicists on his podcast and having in-depth and flowing conversations with them.
- gowld 5y ago
  Yes, he knows basic physics. but none of his sketches of novel theory has been substantiated by anyone.
  - nbardy 5y ago
    And they won’t be for a while. That’s why he’s working on it still.

gowld 5y ago

Einstein had a few important but easy to state ideas about the speed of light and gravity, that he analyzed at length with non-controverial comprehensible (to experts) math, and made a bunch of predictions that many scientists verified. The quantum menchics theory was much more controversial, and Einstein opposed it.