>Devils Advocate ... "Devil's advocate" statements can be useful as a thought experiment in exploring a topic by generating something new that prompts others t

>Devils Advocate ... "Devil's advocate" statements can be useful as a thought experiment in exploring a topic by generating something new that prompts others to make the counterargument explicit. There's a lot of articles and comments here flying around in the last few days trying to reify google's idea and explore the boundaries of the implications. When you raise one of the advertised positives, I don't feel like that's a novel point that prompts exploration of a new angle on the topic. >Why is it a bad thing for [google's pitch] /me gestures widely in the direction ongoing conversations and articles over the last few days If you don't care about everything discussed, you can just say you don't care.