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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015

      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

      10 replies 14 retweets 65 likes
    2. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
      Replying to @patrickc

      "Heretical as it may sound, “basic science” isn’t nearly as productive of new inventions as we tend to think."

      3 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
      Replying to @patrickc

      Take the telephone. Apart from Maxwell, Faraday, Henry, [...1,000 others...], it was mostly just tinkering.pic.twitter.com/t1kKUoX39k

      4 replies 4 retweets 16 likes
    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 1 retweet 18 likes
    5. 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.

      4 replies 1 retweet 27 likes
    6. 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.

      7 replies 1 retweet 31 likes
      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.

      3:10 PM - 1 Nov 2015
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        1. David Aron Levine‏ @davealevine 1 Nov 2015
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          @paulg @patrickc this is a perfect instance where the medium mobile app can fill the gap. Longer than 140 quick thoughts

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        1. Nadim Hossain‏ @NadimHossain 1 Nov 2015
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          @paulg @patrickc An App that takes tweet storms & fleshes them out into proper essays...would be neat.

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        1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
          Replying to @paulg

          @paulg Essays... do you think people read those things?

          4 replies 0 retweets 24 likes
        2. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 1 Nov 2015
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          @paulg (Jokes aside, Alan Kay -- unsurprisingly -- wrote a great response over email... I'll ask if I can publish that.)

          4 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
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