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Comment author: shminux 05 July 2012 03:27:08PM 1 point [-]

If you still mean physics: why this confidence about the existence of low-hanging fruit?

Maybe there is some misunderstanding here. I'm sure there is plenty of low-hanging fruit still undiscovered. But you have to first get to that hard-to-reach orchard where it grows.

My grad student friend had to go to the LHC to work on (I think) his thesis. I assume they don't let people in off the street.

Indeed they don't, though I'm not sure how it is related to my point that negative selection is not a total disaster.

If you mean academia in general: have you forgotten where you are? ^_^

Where am I?

Comment author: hairyfigment 06 July 2012 01:10:57AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure how it is related to my point that negative selection is not a total disaster.

What would look different if it were? (Aside from, say, the reduced chance of someone finding the Higgs.)

Comment author: shminux 06 July 2012 03:09:30AM 0 points [-]

Then I would expect that once in a while some filtered out genius discovers something really exciting, against all odds, as I mentioned already.

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