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lalalandland • today at 3:46 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

For every von Neumann you probably have thousands if not millions of crack pots with ideas not worth wasting time on. So I understand the scepticism


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hnfong • today at 4:32 PM

If people are assigned a "gatekeeping" position, they should at least be expected to be able to tell great minds from crack pots. (As opposed to just blindly applying a statistical filter)

Otherwise why not just replace them with a script (or these days, an AI)

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amunozo • today at 5:22 PM

E.g., economics.

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