“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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Replying to @Grady_Booch @RitaJKing
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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Replying to @Plinz @Grady_Booch
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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Replying to @RitaJKing @Grady_Booch
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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Replying to @Plinz @RitaJKing
You think. I respect you think that way. But I also hope your intellect is sufficiently embracing so as to permit the idea that you might be wrong and that others can indeed find value in the topic.
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Absolutely. I thought that is so obvious and self evident that it does not require mentioning. Any edge of understanding that any human mind can hope to pass will will trivial some time later on, and turn out to be wrong in a larger context.
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Replying to @Plinz @RitaJKing
Well, with all due respect, you can be rather absolute and dismissive. Love you dearly, man, but still...
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Replying to @Grady_Booch @RitaJKing
Sincerely, I think that we are misunderstanding each other, and it might be helpful for both of us to take a step back and try to understand what the other side is trying to convey.
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