A pattern I've seen in many different fields: even though many people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because they've all worked on similar things.
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Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems.
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Some of the best places of all to find new ideas are fields that people think are played out, because they've already been fully explored. Essays, Lisp, venture funding – you may notice a pattern here.
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Replying to @paulg
Seems like it would be hard to get funding for an unfashionable industry.
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Replying to @safetyth1rd
If you pitch it right to the right sort of investor (e.g. Pmarca or Peter Thiel), it can be easier.
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