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by TheCoelacanth 2406 days ago
> ML researchers mainly do competitions on the same data sets, trying to put up better numbers.

There are surely a lot of researchers doing that, but do you really think anyone who has a plausible claim at being one of the top 100 researchers in the field in the entire world is doing that? Even if there are only 100 people doing truly novel research, that's still 100 times as many people as are going to be working on Carmack's research.

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How many people were working on physics before Einstein came along?

I don't think you understand the desired outcome here. We want eureka moments, and we're hopeful for some. That doesn't mean we expect them to happen. Stop being such a pessimist.