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I guess the issue is that, like with evolution, the marketplace of ideas does not necessarily reward the ideas that people would think of as "best", but selects
by Nursie 6y ago
I guess the issue is that, like with evolution, the marketplace of ideas does not necessarily reward the ideas that people would think of as "best", but selects for fitness in other ways.
- c22 6y agoThe "marketplace of ideas" cannot reward what is "best" since disparate people have differing ideas of what best means. Indeed, the marketplace "solves" this problem precisely by invoking another fitness function, a compromise that is predicated by a certain cultural tension and virtually guaranteed to produce results that appear sub-par from every perspective.