Mouhaha. Comparing Nest's HN reaction with the reaction on Soylent is just bad writing and reasoning.
In every case, we’re given a choice: do we react reflexively, hunting for anything and everything that we can think of to shoot down a new and challenging idea, or do we fight our first reflex, and give the idea a chance?
Yeah, we should be giving a chance to use our brain and reason instead of being fooled but a nice product presentation and a beautiful "NEW!" sticker on it. As for Soylent, this product is an insult to reason and any kind of nutrition studies done before, so let's not put it as the same level as Nest. It's a different story altogether.
It's not because an idea is compelling that it makes sense. Some people find suicide a very good solution to end up their everyday life problems, it does not validate it a good solution for everyone else.
The "give everyday idea a chance" is a lot like "respect everyone's opinion" crap we have to deal with so much nowadays. On the contrary, I'd rather have a fruitful discussion based on reason, data and reasonable assumptions with someone instead of accepting everything just because it's fresh and new and cool.
I think it's very healthy to challenge new ideas and to point out their flaws. That's why I enjoy the discussions on HN, most of the time, because you have a bunch of educated people here who usually are very reasonable when it comes to debating and produce interesting arguments to think about. This should be actually good feedback for people who produce new ideas, rather than a crowd saying "bravo" everytime something "original" comes out.
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Mouhaha. Comparing Nest's HN reaction with the reaction on Soylent is just bad writing and reasoning.
Yeah, we should be giving a chance to use our brain and reason instead of being fooled but a nice product presentation and a beautiful "NEW!" sticker on it. As for Soylent, this product is an insult to reason and any kind of nutrition studies done before, so let's not put it as the same level as Nest. It's a different story altogether.
Sorry, I'm not an expert on nutrition. Soylent is just an idea I found very compelling.
It's not because an idea is compelling that it makes sense. Some people find suicide a very good solution to end up their everyday life problems, it does not validate it a good solution for everyone else.
The "give everyday idea a chance" is a lot like "respect everyone's opinion" crap we have to deal with so much nowadays. On the contrary, I'd rather have a fruitful discussion based on reason, data and reasonable assumptions with someone instead of accepting everything just because it's fresh and new and cool.
I think it's very healthy to challenge new ideas and to point out their flaws. That's why I enjoy the discussions on HN, most of the time, because you have a bunch of educated people here who usually are very reasonable when it comes to debating and produce interesting arguments to think about. This should be actually good feedback for people who produce new ideas, rather than a crowd saying "bravo" everytime something "original" comes out.