Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn M...
by mcv on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:46AM
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While the quote is true, it doesn't mean that being unreasonable should be a goal in itself. Indeed, destruction also comes from unreasonable people. It all depends on what it is you're really trying to accomplish. Is it something good? By all means, push harder to get there. But if it's something bad, then you may end up destroying more value than you create. A witty saying doesn't let you bypass ethics.
Change depends on the unreasonable man, but not all change is progress. Maybe listen to reasonable people to steer the change towards something good.
Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn M...
by johnchristopher on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:10AM
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And it also comes with the same submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567630
Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn M...
by groutexpectatio on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:50AM
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should be perfectly fine to hold extreme opinions. Bayesian distributions suggests that extreme opinions will be unpopular, and will not find much evidence from the real world, and will be less likely to gain mass following.
This quote appears here regularly and while I generally agree with the underlying message we should put on our nuance-goggles and consider the amount of energy expended by reasonable people repairing the unreasonable person's path of destruction, and that the progress gauge can go backwards as well as forwards.