Researcher: tearing apart research is 1000x easier than finding something novel
generativist · x · 2026-10-22
Generativist observes that it is 1000x easier to critique existing research than to find something genuinely novel, invoking "that which can be destroyed by the truth should be" and insisting he isn't really joking.
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