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ego + no high quality feedback -> intellectual doom Guy is trapped inside his own mind and can't get out. Even independent researchers need scientific communit
by nabla9 4y ago
ego + no high quality feedback -> intellectual doom
Guy is trapped inside his own mind and can't get out. Even independent researchers need scientific community to spar with. If you can't explain your thought simply to your peers (followers don't count) maybe you are lost.
Same thing with Erik Weinstein. Left academia early to do something else, became rich. When he finally published the outline of the great thing he had been working for decades, someone easily spotted the errors and that was it.
- paulpauper 4y agoYeah he never talks about his theory anymore. Amazing how sudden that went from 100 to 0. Same for him applying gauge theory to the CPI, which also went splat and never to be spoken of again. The reality is, these concepts have engendered a significant and dense literature .The odds of being an outsider and just upending it are close to nil, even if you are brilliant. Sure Einstein did, how often does that happen?
- nabla9 4y agoEinstein was not isolated or outsider genius. He was a young physicist who didn't get academic position. Einstein's best friend Marcel Grossmann was a mathematician specializing in differential geometry and tensor calculus. Those were exactly the tools he needed for his breakthrough. Grossmann was important facilitator for Einstein. There were others. "Olympia Academy" and his wife for example.