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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
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      This is so vapidly specious: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-basic-science-1445613954 …. I'm surprised people are even linking to it.pic.twitter.com/Yz2IPhxGUX

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    2. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
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      "Heretical as it may sound, “basic science” isn’t nearly as productive of new inventions as we tend to think."

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    3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
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      Take the telephone. Apart from Maxwell, Faraday, Henry, [...1,000 others...], it was mostly just tinkering.pic.twitter.com/t1kKUoX39k

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    4. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
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      Or the transistor. Apart from Bardeen's developments in quantum mechanics, the development of germanium diodes, etc., tinkering!

      5 replies 2 retweets 18 likes
      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
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      More broadly, his idea that inventions can be analyzed in isolation and attributed to any single causal factor misunderstands progress.

      2:53 PM - 1 Nov 2015
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        2. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
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          Lastly, apologies for being That Guy ranting that someone is wrong on the internet. I gave in after the fifteenth tweet about the article.

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        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 Nov 2015
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          @patrickc Perhaps you should write an essay about this instead of trying to compress it into tweets.

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          @patrickc remember when you were just tinkering BY YOURSELF and all of sudden anyone could pay for anything instantly almost anywhere?

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        1. Christopher F. Nicholson‏ @chrisFnicholson 1 Nov 2015
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          @patrickc it’s one step below mass-media political punditry. The facts don’t really matter if it sounds good.

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        1. Ask_Tweety‏ @ask_tweety 1 Nov 2015
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          @patrickc Invention is in the mind of the beholder, it's not by accident some humans are born with different brains each serving a purpose.

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