This reminds me of something I’ve read about Isaac Asimov doing. He said that people tended not to believe him when he told them he didn’t know anything about the subject he was asked to give a speech on. As a result, he started changing the subject.
He gave an example in which he was asked to give a speech on information retrieval or something. He didn’t know anything about it beyond that it was apparently called “information retrieval”. He basically said that Mendelian inheritance was discovered long before it was needed to solve certain problems in the theory of evolution, but nobody knew about it so it took a while to figure out the answer, so a better way to retrieve information would be helpful. Mostly he was just talking about Mendelian inheritance.
This reminds me of something I’ve read about Isaac Asimov doing. He said that people tended not to believe him when he told them he didn’t know anything about the subject he was asked to give a speech on. As a result, he started changing the subject.
He gave an example in which he was asked to give a speech on information retrieval or something. He didn’t know anything about it beyond that it was apparently called “information retrieval”. He basically said that Mendelian inheritance was discovered long before it was needed to solve certain problems in the theory of evolution, but nobody knew about it so it took a while to figure out the answer, so a better way to retrieve information would be helpful. Mostly he was just talking about Mendelian inheritance.