Honestly looking for diverse ideas here... What does it take for you to be happy to encounter ideas that are very different/opposite of your own?
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Replying to @thewiseturtle
At the very least, when I seek them out and find what appears to be a good source explaining the view well. Often when I'm excited about an idea, I'll search "criticism of [idea]" as well.
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Replying to @thewiseturtle
Wonderful question! A "good" source can be many things - persuasive, thorough. Even confusing, a sign I should keep looking. Regardless of confusion, multiple sources is a pointer toward goodness.
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So, it's more about skillful storytelling and popularity for you, it seems. So if I hire a popular actor and asked her to get a bunch of friends to make a video, with a really appealing narrative about an idea I have, it would be a better source than if I just offer it myself?
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Replying to @thewiseturtle
Oh, I don't think popularity was a part of it at all. I meant thoroughness - like the shape of the idea being explained appears to have many pieces that fit together well. (I'm particularly attuned to internal consistency.)
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Replying to @coponder @thewiseturtle
To answer your question - no, I don't think a popular actor repeating your ideas + giving a narrative (about how the idea came to be? What would the narrative be about) would be any more persuasive or "good".
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If the person putting forth the explanation can place the idea in a history of ideas - what come before and after - I would mark that toward "thorough".
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