• frezik@midwest.social
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    2 months ago

    Agreed, Tesla is way overvalued. It doesn’t help that he gets picked up by free energy cranks. When one shows up at my makerspace, they almost always cite Tesla somewhere.

    Not that Tesla did nothing, but people can’t leave it at his actual accomplishments. The fact that so much of his work can’t be reproduced is seen as deep magic rather than a failure of science.