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Your comment looks a lot like a common trope on this site: people encountering a problem they know little about, thinking for 20 seconds, and saying “You could
by zztop44 3y ago
Your comment looks a lot like a common trope on this site: people encountering a problem they know little about, thinking for 20 seconds, and saying “You could just…”
And that’s annoying because it’s arrogant and it invalidates people who have dedicated their lives and careers to that work.
But rereading your initial comment, I think it was actually framed as invitation for discussion rather than an “obvious simple solution”.
Don’t let it worry you too much. Sometimes shit just gets downvoted!
- happytiger 3y agoThanks for this. I am not always full of grace and poise when exploring stuff, as I find it counterproductive to real exploration. People love to just rip you down when you ask why: it’s got to be fundamental to something in human evolution. Nothing pisses some people off than questioning the status quo. But I’d much rather put one a flame retarding suite and ask basic first-principle style questions and get assumed to be an idiot but actually learn something than try to look smart. Probably because I’m not smart. I’d also assume that a lot of what’s been done already is smart, but often the incentives aren’t aligned to put something into implementation or regulation keeps smart solutions from progressing to viability. There’s something in almost every market that’s not moving forward just due to poor regulation or mis or under considered incentive misalignment. I’ve done a lot of work in ag and know something about the insurance side but not much on predator mitigation, but it seems like an area where we could really improve. I don’t believe every innovation worth making in the space is already done so we should keep exploring. Thanks for understanding the spirit of it.