Though he never intended to be one, @paulg is one my favorite silicon valley philosophers. He has this way of finding the most controversial things that many liberal technologists believe and saying it in delightfully succinct ways. Here he is on capitalism vs socialism:https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1093225472417239040 …
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Nice idea with the usefulness test. The only thing it doesn’t include though is a test for TRUTH (which seem like an important thing to test for). Something can be useful and yet false (e.g. treat every gun as if it’s loaded - even if it isn’t, it’s useful to pretend it is)
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Interesting... how can you judge that philosophy will be as ‘young’ (guessing code for fruitful)?
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