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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, without going on too long about this, I think this mindset has also protected me from any sorts of ideas of exceptionalism. Like the idea that certain groups of people can't develop their own tech or something. Just utter bullshit and nonsense. History is rife with independent invention. Much of invention is path dependence leading to a context where a lot of people will have similar ideas. It's foolish to the extreme to underestimate other humans' ingenuity and imaginations.