Have you any idea about how to test your hypothesis ? How to test for difference between past and present ?
I am entirely convinced that some people don’t try to go and steal other good idea from the outgroup. Even people from «progessive» group. I can easily imagine that it is a general tendency, and not just something I see in the people in my neighborhood.
However, I don’t see anything convincing that it is actually getting worse. I’m not an historian, from what I have heard and understood of the past centuries, open-mindness was not generally an adjective which could describe most of the people who had to live in those time, even if they were some great exceptions. The time it took to switch from roman number to arabic number seems to show that “stealing good ideas” was not an applied ideal. Thus, I must admit I’m kind of sceptic about the content of this blog post. Or, to say it in an other way, it’s strangely looking similar to an article in the recent trend about “how internet is creating a bubble around you”, but rewritten with rationalist wording.
By the way, if there is an easy way to distinguish good idea from bad idea, I’d love to have a pointer to it. Which would be mandatory to know what idea to actually steal.
“By the way, if there is an easy way to distinguish good idea from bad idea, I’d love to have a pointer to it. Which would be mandatory to know what idea to actually steal. ”
My crack at a solution to this problem was to learn to recognize ideas that are useful then filter those by how moral they are.
I fail all the time at this. I miss things. I fail to grasp the idea or fail to find a use case. I fail to judge the moral consequences of the idea.
I find it easier to find ideas that are useful to a problem i’m immediately facing rather than useful in general. Which narrows my filter bubble to just those related to programming as those are the problems I encounter and think about the most.
1) If it’s an idea someone else uses, ask them where they use it and how. If it’s too general, get a concrete example.
2) If it is clear where it might be applied, test it. (I tested Bayes Theorem on a real life question with numbers I made up, to see if it was a useful tool. I didn’t think of the problem when I was looking at the technique; I came across a question and I remembered it, so I used it.)
Have you any idea about how to test your hypothesis ? How to test for difference between past and present ?
I am entirely convinced that some people don’t try to go and steal other good idea from the outgroup. Even people from «progessive» group. I can easily imagine that it is a general tendency, and not just something I see in the people in my neighborhood.
However, I don’t see anything convincing that it is actually getting worse. I’m not an historian, from what I have heard and understood of the past centuries, open-mindness was not generally an adjective which could describe most of the people who had to live in those time, even if they were some great exceptions. The time it took to switch from roman number to arabic number seems to show that “stealing good ideas” was not an applied ideal. Thus, I must admit I’m kind of sceptic about the content of this blog post. Or, to say it in an other way, it’s strangely looking similar to an article in the recent trend about “how internet is creating a bubble around you”, but rewritten with rationalist wording.
By the way, if there is an easy way to distinguish good idea from bad idea, I’d love to have a pointer to it. Which would be mandatory to know what idea to actually steal.
“By the way, if there is an easy way to distinguish good idea from bad idea, I’d love to have a pointer to it. Which would be mandatory to know what idea to actually steal. ”
My crack at a solution to this problem was to learn to recognize ideas that are useful then filter those by how moral they are.
I fail all the time at this. I miss things. I fail to grasp the idea or fail to find a use case. I fail to judge the moral consequences of the idea.
I find it easier to find ideas that are useful to a problem i’m immediately facing rather than useful in general. Which narrows my filter bubble to just those related to programming as those are the problems I encounter and think about the most.
Two ways to do this:
1) If it’s an idea someone else uses, ask them where they use it and how. If it’s too general, get a concrete example.
2) If it is clear where it might be applied, test it. (I tested Bayes Theorem on a real life question with numbers I made up, to see if it was a useful tool. I didn’t think of the problem when I was looking at the technique; I came across a question and I remembered it, so I used it.)