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Many discoveries were made by accident. But some people, like
some amateurs, who might do research in a more erratic way,
can
be more exposed to this "risk", and have to give away part of the
increase in their self esteem just because they were lucky when
they found something new. By setting
a small amount of money
aside each month to pay for an insurance such people could
protect themselves against the loss of being deprived of part of
their merit by accident.
Business Idea Payout
https://imgs.xkcd.c...y_business_idea.png
webcomic illustrating payout for vaguely remembered business ideas [sninctown, Jun 28 2020]
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//a small amount// of what? Self esteem? |
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Of money, I have updated the text. Thanks. |
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Some people think money is no substitute for self esteem. I like to blow by them in my Ferrari and then bribe the police to give them the ticket. |
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Surely this is baked then, since I understand that insurance agents will basically take your money for any and every insurance possibility. |
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I thought the idea of setting aside self-esteem would be more original. |
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There could also be an existentialist element to this, in that some people might feel better about accidentally discovering something, considering it a gift or a blessing from a god, or the fairies, or the universe, or something. For such people, individual credit would be a down-grading of their experience. "Well done you are so clever" <looks disappointed> You mean it was only me that thought it up? That's a crushing blow, I was really excited to think that the supernatural powers of Og-Hob-Fag had chosed to channel their ideas through me. Now you're saying that they ignored me and that this idea was just mine all along. I wish I had insured myself against the disappointment of finding out that it was only my own work after all. |
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Don't know 'bout no Og-Hob-Fag but something like 90% of my ideas and or discoveries have been channelled from... something other than my own conscious thoughts and I give total credit for these things to my subconscious mind, and I believe that it is the willingness to give credit where it is due that keeps them coming.
I'm pretty sure that the day I steal credit for something it showed me is the day it will stop showing me things. |
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Crazy? Sure.
Functional? You betcha. |
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True, we are all part of the overall wave equation whether there are local bets or not. |
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God does play dice with the universe. Wave function uncertainty is so strong that I'm not even in the same overall wave equation as I'm in! |
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Really high orders of complexity does hide stuff well. |
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You don't get to do that. You can't claim a causal link between quantum weirdness here and quantum weirdness there without proving quantum randomness does not exist. |
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I had a shrink many years ago that said there were no
such things as accidents. (I was about 10 minutes late
and I said I overslept and that it was an accident).
Jerk. |
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//the supernatural powers of Og-Hob-Fag had chosed to
channel their ideas through me// |
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[Voice] I thought it is always one wave equation of weirdness therefore giving the problem of the range/scope of looking. |
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I'm going to need about two more years before I can prove my point. I need more time with integration and quantum wave probability. |
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