Comments on: You’ll be accused of some form of heresy https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/youll-be-accused-of-some-form-of-heresy/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Lucklucky https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/youll-be-accused-of-some-form-of-heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-3016259 Lucklucky Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:43:56 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45825#comment-3016259 This is my heresy: most science has been wrong most of the time, and most scientists have been wrong. Just a small proportion of scientists have been correct.

]]> By: CVLR https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/youll-be-accused-of-some-form-of-heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-3016255 CVLR Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:48:44 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45825#comment-3016255 L. C. Rees,

(lol)

]]> By: L. C. Rees https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/youll-be-accused-of-some-form-of-heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-3016249 L. C. Rees Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:22:01 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45825#comment-3016249 Why Lisp programmers are lonely.

]]> By: Harry Jones https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/youll-be-accused-of-some-form-of-heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-3016154 Harry Jones Wed, 04 Dec 2019 20:29:40 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45825#comment-3016154 Any struggle involving more than two individuals will be a struggle between groups, and a group needs an identity in order to function as a group. An idea is an identity. Maybe not the true common interest, but at least a rationalization.

This is why there is no such thing as collective genius. A breakthrough idea can only be discovered by distancing oneself from all established group ideologies whatsoever.

In order to lead, you must first learn not to follow.

]]> By: CVLR https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/youll-be-accused-of-some-form-of-heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-3016150 CVLR Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:55:04 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45825#comment-3016150 “Most struggles, whatever they’re really about, will be cast as struggles between competing ideas. The English Reformation was at bottom a struggle for wealth and power, but it ended up being cast as a struggle to preserve the souls of Englishmen from the corrupting influence of Rome. It’s easier to get people to fight for an idea. And whichever side wins, their ideas will also be considered to have triumphed, as if God wanted to signal his agreement by selecting that side as the victor.”

Paul Graham c. 2004 speaketh: “interests über ideology”.

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