Deteriorated copies spread

2021-11-08

• If there is something of value X and an inferior copy of it is possible, then over time a degraded copy of it is made and the boundaries of concept X are expanded
• The degraded copies reach the “Shoeshine boy” who does not actively acquire information first.
• So Observation coverage issues lowers the value of X
• This is Pessimistic Misconceptions, underestimating the value of X, so they don’t want to read the original source of X and can’t recognize the mistake

relevance - Usefulness of the classics - A good book X written by a smart person is copied all over the place by people of a later time period, degrading it. - People who can’t compete on the merits of their content put their name out there as a foil, saying, “It’s written in that famous X.” - People who read only a degraded copy without reading the original will misunderstand and say, “What a big deal. - self-development - Self-help used to mean good. - More scammers are taking money by offering degraded copies of self-help. - As a result, more and more people see “self-help” itself in a bad light.

• @nishio: the “person with a high level of consciousness” concept, I felt it was a kind of this after all

  • narrow-minded
  • when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives out good money (Gresham’s Law)
  • Mass production due to low production costs of bad “degraded copies”
  • Good content” is expensive to produce.
  • It is not reasonable to put out good content in a place where good content and degraded copies are equated, so good content will not appear in such a place.
  • A minority is a majority among those who observe only a minority.
  • Just because there are a lot of buggy programs out there doesn’t make being buggy right.
  • A not-so-nice phrase, but simpler: “More idiots don’t make the idiots right.”
    • There are simply too many idiots.

The big man is decent.

kmizu I don’t know what you mean when you say that “there are a lot of people who promote object orientation who are kind of stinkers,” but I’ve seen Fowler, Eric Gamma, Joshua Brock, and a lot of others. I’ve seen the discourse of Fowler, Eric Gamma, Joshua Block, and many others, and I think those who are considered “big names in the object-oriented field” in the English-speaking world are generally “sane. …

• kmizu By the way, object orientation is a methodology (or some kind of framework), and at least no sane researcher should have ever called themselves a “science”. So, the perception of those who criticize it as pseudo-science is itself off.

• Also, there seems to be an assumption among such people that if it’s not science, it’s worthless.

• A series of pictures of two people saying different things

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