Thought prompted by (paraphrase) “Who will cross-subsidize the education of non-renumerative-occupation-of-interest after Lambda School is educating every professional in capitalism?”
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And as much as I share enthusiasm for living in that hypothetical universe good golly there is a heck of a lot of work between the status quo and the first 1% of that outcome.
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(There’s also a weird ability to forecast only the activities of the startup being criticized but nothing about the wider dynamic system. Surely if the revenue stream of colleges goes down by tens of percent over decades they can find at least one smart person to do something.)
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They tend either to refuse to believe a startup will become popular at all, or assume it will be way more popular than the founders hope, depending on which suits their argument.
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Sounds like the Nirvana fallacy. I see the same with Bitcoin critics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy …
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startup boosters and media do the exact same thing tho. it’s romantic fantasy time for everyone
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these visions get particularly strange in the “fighting disease + helping people live longer” space
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I’m particularly fond of the “this won’t fix absolutely everything in the world so therefore is terrible and worthy of scorn” argument.
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“Black Mirror” syndrome
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