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My main take-away from this article was that people often use the underlying paradigms of today (perhaps unknowingly) to predict surface level details of tomorr
by dwaltrip 10y ago
My main take-away from this article was that people often use the underlying paradigms of today (perhaps unknowingly) to predict surface level details of tomorrow. "Asking the wrong questions", as the article byline states.
Instead, we should try to predict how the fundamental paradigms will change, and then deduce visible, commonplace details from that.
I did just started reading "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Kuhn, which is all about paradigms (of a specific sort). It's good stuff.
- tlow 10y agoKuhn argues that it would be difficult to discern if one were inside of a revolution as it was occurring, correct? So how does one ask the "right question"?
- dwaltrip 10y agoI'm not sure. But I think knowing that the default mode is usually to ask the wrong questions can help us. It provides a new lense for analyzing any ideas that come up: "What assumptions am I sub-conscioisly making here? What current paradigms does the idea depend upon?" etc.