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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2017
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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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    2. Dorian Taylor‏ @doriantaylor 25 Dec 2017
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      what if these conversations are more ??!! at the treatment of X like it's doing something entirely new

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2017
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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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    4. Dorian Taylor‏ @doriantaylor 25 Dec 2017
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      really? never encountered "I invented X, it's so groundbreaking!" "uhh X was figured out like 60 years ago"

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2017
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      There's always a delta. It's a values difference in how much credit you give the delta. If someone turns EVIL in scrabble into DEVIL, you credit them for 1 letter, I credit them for 5. Authority-respecting traditionalist values vs heretic values.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2017
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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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        2. Dorian Taylor‏ @doriantaylor 25 Dec 2017
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          i'm not even looking at that angle; more like there's a whackload of neglected stuff sitting around right now that can be mined—it's sitting there for the taking go and "invent" something "new", how much effort does that take you

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2017
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          In general less than mining old. Stuff depreciates fast. Reinvention is often cheaper and easier. Baggage of old is often far costlier than people think. Down with ancien regime. Viva la revolucion. Off with their heads.

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