> and actually good and original stuff gets rejected This isnt a new thing though. Cantor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_Cantor%27s_theory ht

> and actually good and original stuff gets rejected This isnt a new thing though. Cantor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_Cantor%27s_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_Cantor%27s_th... they didnt just reject him, they basically publicly beat him down, and drove him away from math and into depression. David Bohm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_potential https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_potential spent years on the outside for having his ideas on this. Geoffrey Hinton: was considered a quack and an outsider for YEARS because of his ideas on AI... the breakthrough he spawned was done on a shoestring of a budget (read: home pc). Edit: I forgot John Yudkin: Pure White and Deadly, talking about how bad sugar is for you in 1972... Rejected by the mainstream academics, and in a brutal way, happens a LOT more than we think.