Not sure why you’d think this is incompatible with anything I said.
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Replying to @mr_scientism
Because 2 of the 4 avenues you mentioned dont do shit
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Replying to @mr_scientism
No. Just actually tracing the roots of technical development through egyptian/grecian roots, through european monastic empiricsm, and western european hobbyist experimentation
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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
Its unlikely youre even familiar with the fairly miraculous synchronous development of the transistor and information theory.
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Replying to @fides_et_cancri @mr_scientism
the “hobbyists” you are referring to were aristocrats with a research budget comparable to a small nation
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there'e ppl with research budgets the size of a small nation who faff around for decades and never get anything done, & big corp and gov R & D depts with an admin process of stunning scale and sophistication who never get anything done either. not sure this is the axis to look on
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idk exactly what you’re saying, but from Boyle to Babbage funding was a major permissive condition
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really all I'm saying is it's necessary but not sufficient
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @QuasLacrimas and
movement from pure speculation or idea to experimentally attested theory to practical result has to acquire a material capacity somewhere along the way, but there's no universal rule for where exactly that point is -- it depends on the specific knowledge domain and theory-content
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well, in the period 1550-1850, roughly, ppl were hitting the limits of what was financially feasible pretty quick ie, ability to design instruments rapidly outpaced ability to build and test them (which makes continued theorization mostly pointless)
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