Some ideas are good and some are bad even if it is also true that if one wants to be appreciated for those ideas one must find a receptive audience.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
Public success will depend on both identifying the correct direction, which may require going very deep yourself, and our ability to identify the next step on the path for the largest audience. If we are working at the boundary of our understanding, we will rarely be successful.
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Replying to @Plinz
Public success is a separate issue from whether an idea is objectively good or bad.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I just doubt that ideas can be good or bad. No matter how mind blowing an idea appears to us now, it will be trivial, boring and obvious to us a few steps of mental development later.
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Replying to @Plinz
Immunotherapy for eliminating cancer is a really good idea, for example. Drinking and driving is a bad idea.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
If I were to write books about why it is a good idea to not combine drinking and driving, I'd probably waste everybody's time. It is a good idea in the normative sense, but a an utterly trivial idea in the intellectual sense.
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Replying to @Plinz @RitaJKing
“An utterly trivial idea.” Let’s challenge that. “Autonomous Vehicles: Will They Encourage Driving and Drinking?” “Optimizing Surge Pricing Algorithms to Combat Drunk Driving” Point is, I can think of many intellectually spins on what seems to be a tired idea.
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Replying to @RitaJKing @Grady_Booch
You mean the ideas of people being paid for pretending to be intellectuals, Grady :)
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Replying to @Plinz @RitaJKing
Let’s follow your comment to its natural conclusion, then. Hence, if any idea has economic value it is therefore not intellectual. Continuing, the only One True and Pure Intellect is a person who offers absolute no measurable value to humanity.
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I think that the economic value, the intellectual value and the normative value of an idea are orthogonal dimensions. I don't intend to dismiss any of these dimensions.
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Replying to @Plinz @RitaJKing
And yet, you seemingly disparaged an idea because, to you, it served only the market, and was not sufficiently “intellectual.”
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Replying to @Grady_Booch @RitaJKing
That was not my intention. I had not expressed clearly which dimension of goodness of ideas I wanted to talk about, which has led to a misunderstanding.
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