I was slightly tempted to downvote on the grounds that I don’t want to see posts like this on LW, but the author is new so instead I’ll leave this comment.
What I dislike about this post is that it’s making an extremely obvious and long discussed observation. There’s nothing wrong with new people having this old insight—in fact, having insights others have already had can be confirmation that your thinking is going in a useful direction—but I’m not excited to read about an idea that people have thought of since before I was born (e.g. Asimov’s Foundation series arguably includes exactly this idea of what happens when a leader lives forever, for a slightly unusual definition of “lives”).
My guess is that others feel the same and helps explain this post’s lukewarm response.
I’d be more excited to read a post that explored some new angle on the idea.
I was slightly tempted to downvote on the grounds that I don’t want to see posts like this on LW, but the author is new so instead I’ll leave this comment.
What I dislike about this post is that it’s making an extremely obvious and long discussed observation. There’s nothing wrong with new people having this old insight—in fact, having insights others have already had can be confirmation that your thinking is going in a useful direction—but I’m not excited to read about an idea that people have thought of since before I was born (e.g. Asimov’s Foundation series arguably includes exactly this idea of what happens when a leader lives forever, for a slightly unusual definition of “lives”).
My guess is that others feel the same and helps explain this post’s lukewarm response.
I’d be more excited to read a post that explored some new angle on the idea.