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by MooseBurger 846 days ago
In certain computer science problems, a suboptimal action at time t may give rise to an optimal outcome at time >t.

Why wouldn't this be the case for research generally? Has our community really devolved to the point where things should only be noteworthy insofar as they optimize for SOTA for a given problem?

What a sad thought.