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I’ve now lived through like 4-5 tech cycles accompanied by “but what is the use of X?” and “old Y can do what new X does and more, and better” conversations. Sheer waste of time. It never matters. X will do what X will do. X and Y people rarely learn anything from the debate.
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They never are. It’s almost always “put the young whippersnappers in their place, how dare they disrespect hallowed traditions and fail to pay obseisance to this vaguely related thing?”
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Every increment refactors our understanding of the whole a lot or a little. I tend to give the benefit of doubt to the heretical valuation. If the heretics are right it's a big deal. If they're wrong no big deal. Traditionalists: nbd whether they're right or wrong.
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Scrabble word extension analogy seems fertile. The D enables possibilities that become evident later, which are rarely factored in by Y-defenders nor by X-promoters. We have to err on the side of new being possibly good either as is or in it bringing about good.
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