Public success is a separate issue from whether an idea is objectively good or bad.
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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You writing about drinking and driving, for example, would be utterly trivial, but only because you don't care about the subject, not because it isn't sufficiently "intellectual."
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No, I just think that the physiological, factual and normative relationships between drinking and driving have been explored to such a degree that we probably won't wrestle much new insight by revisiting them, compared to what we could to in the meantime.
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