Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social

A thing about The Discourse is that it incentivizes and may even benefit in the long run from counterintuitive/contrarian arguments — if ideas are evolutionary, you want some diversity in how they interact — but this also means that in the short run most of these individual arguments will be bad.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:04 UTC

Basically, contrarian take-mongers specialize in Having Ideas. Some of those ideas might be good, most will be bad, but the point is mostly just to produce them and see how they fare.

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