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> You also don’t hear about all of the people who failed because they tried something novel and it didn’t work.

Or all the people who, through ignorance or hubris, thought they could do better than the state of the art. Or all the people who independently invent things that already exist. These may be what you're referring to, but thought it's worth re-stating these as they are far more common cases than people inventing truly novel approaches.



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