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This is absolutely wrong. Especially when the formulation of the idea depends on extremely advanced knowledge of the topic.

• nickpp 5y ago
  Prove me wrong. Try selling an idea and let us know how much money you got for it.
  • krageon 5y ago
    You are making an extraordinary claim here (that an idea founded on a significant amount of study and prior experimentation is worthless). It seems to me that it's a little strange to ask someone else to disprove you when you haven't really made your own point of view plausible.
    • nickpp 5y ago
      Do I really need to prove that you can starve with a million ideas in your head? That everyone around has countless ideas and it's impossible to know which ones can create value without spending time and money to try to develop them? I think the extraordinary claim is to pretend to know the value of an idea upfront. Very few people (Venture Capitalists, business investors, etc) try that and they fail more often than they succeed. Show me someone who can reliably predict the idea success rate and I will show you a billionaire!
      • krageon 5y ago
        You're arguing a different point than everyone else, so it makes sense that things don't make sense to you.
        • nickpp 5y ago
          That may very well be. I am arguing against GGGP's implied point that is an inherently bad move to sell an (unproven, untested, undeveloped) idea for $100k. My argument is sustained by the general accepted worldwide idea market value and the very observation that the idea owner, the one that must have been the best informed about said value of that idea, decided to sell. In short, I am saying: "He must have known better than us dumb commenters on the Internet, we must respect his decision, he could've done a lot worse." What point are you arguing?