Science is wonderfully promiscuous in including anything there's evidence for. That makes it really hard to create a body of knowledge that's distinc… - Paul Graham
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Science is wonderfully promiscuous in including anything there's evidence for. That makes it really hard to create a body of knowledge that's distinct from science. If anything in your new body of knowledge is true, science just steals it.
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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.
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