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 @Grady_Booch
You're so right, as usual. We should all just give up and rock back and forth until the rising sea levels wash away the grand mistake of consciousness in these meat puppets.
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Replying to @RitaJKing @Grady_Booch
Nooooo! Lets not waste our opportunity for an amazing journey and the chance to reflect the universe at the unique point in time and human history where we have the resources and tools to do so. Ignore the cults and their toadies, they are not important.
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I prefer to engage by pretending that the other side wants to have a productive conversation, because overtly admitting the alternatives is so dire :)
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