1. Given that 95% of everything is crap, I doubt free speech is a good idea. We’re better off removing the crud. The “market place of ideas” isn’t really a market place bc there’s no pricing. Tweets would be improved if it cost 20p per tweet.
I think ideas are more like sound waves that experience interference “noise” and so diminish in quality, as demonstrated by the informational entropy of Chinese whispers. Ideas degrade with repetition, as coins degrade with handling.
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True, they vary in quality, but that doesn’t render them scarce in way to make the marketplace metaphor meaningful. e.g. if I value an idea highly, I don’t want to ‘sell’ it (exchange it for sth else), but to spread it to others so they can be convinced by it.
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Good ideas are a very, very scarce commodity. It takes years of study and thought to acquire one. Perhaps good ideas are merely a function of efficient energy use, and we could price them? (In fact, we do—look at an entrepreneur or inventor).
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