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You implied it. What you should have alluded to is that it is necessary to use technologies today that won’t necessarily be in use in the future, merely as a st
by xwdv 5y ago
You implied it. What you should have alluded to is that it is necessary to use technologies today that won’t necessarily be in use in the future, merely as a stepping stone to get us to the next destination, where we will use a new but still temporary technology.
- NegativeLatency 5y agoI think op was suggesting someday we’d be on hoverboard or something
- warcher 5y agoWe're all gonna be debugging wordpress apps in the metaverse while our self-driving cars whisk us down the freeway.
- ldiracdelta 5y agoAs Scott Adams says, "Analogies are for fighting." If you try to counter a statement with an analogy you almost always simply get a fight.
- MonaroVXR 5y agoNever thought about that, where do you get this from? But it kinda rings true for me in life.
- ldiracdelta 5y agoI heard it from Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. In addition to writing that comic he is a very interesting thinker. He is also a trained hypnotist.
- slkdk32 5y ago
- eyelidlessness 5y agoQuoting absolutes expressed by highly opinionated people is also for fighting. Not saying you shouldn’t, but maybe there’s some nuance missing. Not even saying the particular analogy was devoid of conflict, it has plenty of room for disagreement. But it didn’t feel to me like it was inviting any which wasn’t already present.
- ldiracdelta 5y agoI would classify Scott Adam's statement as a trueism -- true for most people, under most circumstances, for most times. Unfortunately, couching a trueism in its most precise linguistic form with associated probabilities and error margins is a path to simply being ignored. Once a thread switches to rhetoric, dialectic responses are like pissing in the wind, forgive the analogy :-)
- eyelidlessness 5y agoWell I’ll give you this: quoting Scott Adams then correctly using and understanding the word dialectic is definitely not on my HN comment threads bingo card.
- onion2k 5y agoSurely it's the countering bit that shows you want to get in to a fight more than the analogy. Analogies are just a way of illustrating a point.
- ldiracdelta 5y agoI do wish that people would engage in dialectic conversation when they encounter an analogy, rather than rhetoric. Unfortunately, I find Scott Adam's words ring true.