I think people often underestimate how smart people were in previous generations and overestimate how similar their lives were, especially as a function of infrastructure.
Fascinating - stereotypically silly ideas are sometimes pretty smart.https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1075836272575479809 …
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I like Hardy on Littlewood on the ancient Greek mathematicians, "Fellows of another College" (Littlewood was a Cambridge Don, and one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century)pic.twitter.com/5GmPOdDRPL
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Why is it silly? Reducing your own surface area makes perfect sense, IMO.
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I said _stereotypically_ silly. It's often used as an example of a bad or pointless idea.
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So... seek higher pressure?
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