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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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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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Yeah I think official Scrabble does, though I’ve played with both kinds of rules. In the human world, I find the economy generally does (disrupters take most of the incumbents “letters”), but politics tries hard not to. COMPUTER —> PERSONALCOMPUTER for eg