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> but life is too short to learn what all other smart people had to say on given topic.

You could just reach out to those people who are on the cutting edge and discuss your ideas… they’ll accelerate your work without you having to read / research the entire corpus yourself.

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It doesn't scale, only a few chosen can do that and I think that's what Wolfram is trying to do here. But when you are using a different framework, learning it and creating a mapping is usually just too expensive for other experts. So you get ignored until you can no longer be ignored.

Wolfram could easily reach out to the top 10 experts in the field to bounce ideas off of each other. The cumulative time would be nothing in comparison to going down dead-end paths he could've avoided.

I'll add something more: having dialog with others help you iterate and explore new surface area much more rapidly than sitting at your desk or walking in your garden alone.