Relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/26/rule-genius-in-not-out/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/26/rule-genius-in-not-out... tl;dr The kinds of ide

Relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/26/rule-genius-in-not-out/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/26/rule-genius-in-not-out... tl;dr The kinds of ideas that people who innovate come up with are found at the extremes of convention, and are not distinguishable from crazy whether they are right or wrong, and You should expect an innovator to produce dumb ideas all the time. In other words, forgive the smart, for they know not when they dumb. Edit: this is also why we can be justified praising Elon Musk for SpaceX and, to a lesser extent Tesla, and also ignore complete and utter nonsense like Hyperloop and his cave submarine.