What If Newton Had Hired 150 People to Race Leibniz? An AI Race Analogy
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-09
Commenters draw a Newton-Leibniz analogy for today's AI talent races: had Newton learned a week earlier that Leibniz was nearly done with calculus and hired 150 people to sprint, history would remember him differently. A reply adds that pure technicians would be worthless in such a race, but pure operators would be lost.
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