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300 years ago people also believed alchemy was a serious field of study
by JohnMakin 3mo ago
300 years ago people also believed alchemy was a serious field of study
- credit_guy 3mo agoThat is true. What should we conclude from this statement?
- JohnMakin 3mo agoThat you shouldn’t assume just because in the past ideas have existed that became reality, that all current ideas are feasible or possible?
- credit_guy 3mo agoI didn’t assume that. The author makes the opposite assumption: that because nobody has ever proposed a path to technological feasibility, that thing will forever be technologically unfeasible. I simply find this argument to be very weak.
- NitpickLawyer 3mo agoAnd today we call it transmutation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation