If you dig through the SolidGoldMagikarp post, you can find earlier citations for this class of tokens, but sometimes people omit that earlier work when talking about the phenomenon.
Stephen Casper gives the example of “superposition” as a reinvented concept.
The way to reduce the rate of stuff like this is obviously more scholarship and humility. But I think most of the time, it’s not a big deal, and only people doing active research or outreach should really worry about it. If a student calls it “superposition” and thinks it’s a LW-sphere thing to work on, they’re not doing any material harm.
If you dig through the SolidGoldMagikarp post, you can find earlier citations for this class of tokens, but sometimes people omit that earlier work when talking about the phenomenon.
Stephen Casper gives the example of “superposition” as a reinvented concept.
The way to reduce the rate of stuff like this is obviously more scholarship and humility. But I think most of the time, it’s not a big deal, and only people doing active research or outreach should really worry about it. If a student calls it “superposition” and thinks it’s a LW-sphere thing to work on, they’re not doing any material harm.