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Progress relies upon a certain diversity of thought, and that means that some people (and nearly all scientists) will end up wasting their lives looking down blind alleys

I think the progress of civilization is largely dependent on this Genetic Algorithm-like search/optimization process. Individual lives in the struggle of progress are like bullets in a machine gun. We are like soldiers on a battlefield.



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