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> We've got to this place because the people with wrong ideas were succeding. Hate to break it to you, but if those ideas are succeeding, maybe they weren't wr
by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> We've got to this place because the people with wrong ideas were succeding.
Hate to break it to you, but if those ideas are succeeding, maybe they weren't wrong after all...
- kube-system 6y agoHistory is full of people with very clearly wrong ideas who were succeeding at the time. Something something, Godwin's law.
- curiousgeorgio 6y agoHistory is more full of examples where censorship has lead to tyranny and the downfall of civilizations.
- kube-system 6y agoGovernment censorship, yes. Fortunately, that is not happening here.
- kibwen 6y agoThe marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than free society can remain solvent.
- epakai 6y agoGodwin's law, but Hitler succeeded for a very long time in the decade before WW2. This isn't a useful metric for determining whether ideas are right or wrong.