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Absolutely ridiculous that Caltech has had Feynman's papers for over 30 years without digitizing them or allowing people to read them without visiting LA! One of the greatest minds to ever exist, and Caltech is doing a disservice to his name with their white tower holding his documents. My blood's boiling just reading about Gwern's search through the literature. Shoutout to Gwern for digging this deep into one of my hero's citations

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The OP says Feynman "made a practice of donating" his papers to Caltech. Did he know or expect they'd be managed in such a manner?

Edit: According to Caltech, they have "93 boxes" of Feynman's work that has never been backed up digitally[0]. Beyond the issue of access, what happens if there's ever a sprinkler burst in the wrong room of the archives? [0]https://collections.archives.caltech.edu/repositories/2/reso...

to quote myself, "All too often journals, galleries, and museums are becoming not disseminators of knowledge—as their lofty mission statements suggest—but censors of knowledge, __because censoring is the one thing they do better than the Internet does__."

It's a great quote and I will use it.

Context: https://nt4tn.net/papers/201107.PTRSOL_statement.txt

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