A disproportionate amount of innovation happens in taboo areas.

· Bits and Bobs 5/19/25
  • A disproportionate amount of innovation happens in taboo areas.
    • That's a place that innovation happens, structurally.
    • In a taboo domain you already broke through norms.
    • Famously it was porn that helped push forward the web, as the New York Times called it, "the Low slung engine of technical progress".
    • Apparently soon after the printing press, erotic works were some of the most popular works.
    • Apparently on Open Router the top use cases are coding and erotic chats (and coding only broke through recently).

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