Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator

Re:Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator by spacebanana7 on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:43AM (#30414208)

The substance of an idea is more important than the identity of its author.

Plenty of poor people in pubs have come up with ideas that could've done well on HN.

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Re:Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator by sheer_audacity on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:56AM (#30414291)

No, ideas should always be stated with the context they were produced in, including the people who made it. You can’t publish a physics paper without context (why are we checking this equation, what is the theory behind it, who are the authors behind previous papers and what have they said), let alone a boring online news article. Ideas do not create themselves spontaneously, they need a mind behind them. Don’t be tedious!

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Re:Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator by spacebanana7 on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:30AM (#30414546)

I believe in Pythagoras' Theorem despite the considerable uncertainty about the context in which that idea was produced

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Re:Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator by sheer_audacity on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:37AM (#30414616)

Sure, but why do you have to know it? Who taught you it? Why is it important? Do you just absorb things without context?

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