A fascinating criterion, from David Hilbert: "One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it." Reminds me of @DavidDeutschOxf:pic.twitter.com/klQ75MKq0L
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That seems like it undervalues Shannon's work on information theory... Did it obsolete any prior works at all? Otherwise, seems very useful.
Very good point. I can think of other examples too.
This may be true of all things, including startups
And companies
In this way, perhaps knowledge is exponential.
I agree about rendering superfluous, but as time passes, things are becoming less, not more understandable, by most people like "An electron is a quantised excitation of the Dirac field" vs "An electron is a negatively charged spinning ball".
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