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I wonder if more value is created by people just messing around trying to have fun (apocryphal tale of James Watt messing around staring at tea kettles comes to mind) as opposed to being all serious and working on what they think are important missions
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yeah, it's the obvious one...but all 2x2s are fun whether or not they're useful :) trivial versus serious intent, trivial versus serious impact trivial+trivial = shitpost trivial+serious = serendipitous inventions serious+trivial = virtue signaling serious+serious = war etc
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Creative work happens in the former. Iterative in the latter. Play is essential to true creative endeavors, and techno-culture tends to ignore that. Bernie De Koven has plenty of great work in this field of thinking.
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It's not impossible that humans are more like ants than we understand. No one ant conceives of the emergent effects its activities contribute to. It's possible an ant is intent on a totally different focus, even. This theory wouldn't favor either the one who tries or the good off
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I definitely want to believe this, in the sense that if it’s playful you’ll be more likely to do it. At the same time, most fun pursuits have tedious aspects that need to be pushed through before they become valuable to others.