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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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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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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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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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i dunno that seems like an empirical question to me, and one that would yield different answers if performed on different dates
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