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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg May 23
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      When an expert in a field says that something is strange or puzzling, it's worth paying a lot of attention to. You could probably write an interesting book by talking to experts in different fields and asking them what they'd noticed that seemed strange.

      53 replies 174 retweets 1,812 likes
      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc May 23
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      I’ve often wished there was a site that somehow surfaced what experts would tell you in private is still to be solved in their field.

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        2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg May 23
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          Incidentally, what's strange about payments? (To me the strange thing about payments is the degree to which kickbacks are built into the payment system. I understand why it works, but I wouldn't have predicted it.)

          7 replies 5 retweets 96 likes
        3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc May 23
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          For one thing, always surprising to me that Dee Hock isn’t more widely recognized as a business genius. Visa market cap per employee substantially greater than the (conventionally-defined) tech giants.

          11 replies 10 retweets 159 likes
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        2. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc May 23
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          Lots of sites tell you what’s known (and that’s great). But we should make more legible the intuitions, contradictions, doubts, varied schools/opinions, and other wrinkles of the frontier.

          19 replies 12 retweets 309 likes
        3. Casey Handmer, PhD‏ @CJHandmer May 23
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          Like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics …

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        1. Marshall Schurtz‏ @marshallschurtz May 23
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          Getting a PhD is really an exercise is realizing that experts really don't *know* anything. The final result or paper is just what had to get pushed. Once you accept experts don't have answers, but just data to calibrate your own opinions, the world... is scarier.

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        2. Oliver Cameron‏ @olivercameron May 23
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          This would be perfect for self-driving cars.

          2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
        3. Samar Vir‏ @virsamarvir May 23
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          A site that would connect you with other professionals. Something like - Serendipity - as - a service.

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        1. Salil Sethi‏ @salilsethi May 23
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          The challenge is setting up information "trust". Since experts are saying it in private, they don't want to be publicly quoted. If you make the experts anonymous, you don't know if the information is from an expert. Interesting challenge, but one worth exploring more.

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        2. We shall overcome.‏ @yrubored May 23
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          Academic journals and technical reports are replete with such discussions.

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        3. We shall overcome.‏ @yrubored May 23
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          The question is how to make those discussions more accessible to lay audiences.

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