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Its ok to admit you cant truly grasp something, in fact its a mark of wisdom. The collective output and understanding of the world's scientists is equivalent to that of a superintelligence, you alone will never come close.

I have an uncle who knows a lot more facts about climate change than I do, and uses them to great effect in arguing that its not real.

My uncle is also an idiot.

I think this is great advice, but saying that PL design is done already isn't really true. Its not as hard to make a new kind of PL as you might think, but it is of course hard to make it useful.

Just combining the right features and forgoing the wrong ones into a language alone is an art, to say that its only innovation is a bit like claiming paintings are innovations because we have all the colors :)

Jim backs his RV into the park. He does so without his vehicle entering the park.

Pam comes to the park and begins to live in Jim's RV.

Bob, an alien, lands his spaceship in the park and initiates first contact.

Tim, a pipercub pilot, lands his plane in the park after suffering an engine failure.

Sam rides the subway home underneath the park.

Jordan, a maintenance worker, repairs a broken light in the park from his cherrypicker.

Robert, Jordan's boss, alleges he broke the rule. Another light needs to be replaced, so Robert fixes it, but ensures the cherrypicker's wheels are outside the park.

Tom, a tow truck driver, tows Tamika's car.

Bill emails a complete 3d cad model of a car, which happens to use a fiber line running under the park.

I think your point about research is valid, but once that is done and you have a rough understanding of a solution, you just want things to work. You dont want a bunch of ways to do one thing, you want a single opinionated solution. Part of the information encoded in these models is from trainers deciding which answer is best, and that is information itself which isnt necessarily online.

True, but their cost is still relatively cheaper considering the profit you can make from them is more than from books. Part of this is also because they are easier to replicate.

Every medium has creation and consumption costs, and it affects their average quality. Books have a high creation cost: both in time and money, relative to electronic mediums. They also have a high consumption cost, as you cant read a book in a few seconds like you can watch shortform content. These factors select for quality.