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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.

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    2. 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.

      18 replies 23 retweets 492 likes
      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.

      9:46 AM - 23 May 2020
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        2. 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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        3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc May 23
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          Yeah, these WP pages are a bit too desiccated for my liking — lacking in color and context — but directionally great.

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        2. Benedict Evans‏Verified account @benedictevans May 23
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          How many people in payments would’ve said ‘we really need an easier way to integrate payments into our website’?

          2 replies 1 retweet 34 likes
        3. Stevie Graham‏ @stevegraham May 23
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          Everyone. That was a huge pain in the bum until about 2010-2011.

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        1. Kevin Kelly‏Verified account @kevin2kelly May 23
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          John Brockman phrased this as "What questions are you asking yourself?" and he'd asked experts and scientists.

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        1. José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente‏ @ArtirKel May 23
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          I think this could be reasonably put together from the most recent set of literature reviews for a field+then getting finer details by having experts review that doc.

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        1. Sid‏ @truerphilosophy May 23
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          I feel like basically every field needs the equivalent of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/ ). It allows you to quickly get up to up to speed on a subtopic, get a sense of what the open questions and puzzles are, and go to the relevant resources.

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        1. John Markoff‏ @JohnMarkoff2 May 23
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          This is a great idea. I think opinions vary a lot among experts about what discrepant data is wrong vs interesting, and also think sometimes you need a lot of built up intuition to understand why a contradiction matters. But in bio they are everywhere

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        2. Henry‏ @TheAstralPirate May 23
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          But if you couldn't identify the experts, then it might be hard to market such a book, or at least hard to explain it's importance to potential purchasers.

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        3. Henry‏ @TheAstralPirate May 23
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          And keeping identities private is probably the only way to extract the really juicy paradoxes from the participants.

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