For a long time I thought ppl were saying dumb things about rationality, until I realized they were using a different definition of rationality from me. I think their definition is something like "If social consensus is that an idea is unpromising, then that idea is irrational"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090608908534800384 …
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One of the most incredible cases of this was Claude Shannon with the development of information theory
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Did he think that had no practical applications? That would surprise me.
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