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ahartell comments on The promise of connected science - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: lukeprog 12 November 2011 06:22PM

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Comment author: ahartell 13 November 2011 02:50:00AM 0 points [-]

Because people are dumb?

More seriously, I suspect a lot of people wouldn't expect themselves to have anything to contribute to fields outside their area of expertise just as they suspect outsiders wouldn't have the ability to make breakthroughs in the area they are "experts" in. This seems like the kind of activity that yields no results at all until you find something important, so maybe it seems like a waste of time?