Reading the literature is how you learn your 'original' idea was a 1987 paper
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-10
A wry academic joke: reading the literature first is how you discover your truly original idea was already a 1987 paper with four citations. Painful, but at least now you know exactly what your intro is arguing against.
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