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Unless people are willing to forge "unpublished manuscripts" to gain priority. Need to be careful with that stuff - even when those are legit, the fact that the
by thriftwy 4y ago
Unless people are willing to forge "unpublished manuscripts" to gain priority. Need to be careful with that stuff - even when those are legit, the fact that they were not published immensely increases the complexity of priority. Imagine some goat herder invented binary in 4000 BC without telling anybody.
- le-mark 4y agoVernor Vinge had an interesting take on this idea (1969): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatja_Grimm%27s_World https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatja_Grimm%27s_World