[MUD-Dev2] [DESIGN} Who to design for?

[Caliban Darklock]

On 6/5/07, Sean Howard <squidi at squidi.net> wrote:
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> Common wisdom is wrong more often than not

I don't believe you can rationally justify that statement.

> > In this case, the common wisdom is that you CAN'T predict
> > the Next Big Thing
>
> You can't predict with 100% accuracy

Then the common wisdom is right, at least in this case.

> but I think you can definitely make pretty good predictions on the next
> big thing. Usually, it's a gut feeling.

You mean like when John Romero made me his bitch?

> > and being the common wisdom doesn't make it inherently flawed.
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> It certainly doesn't make it true.

No, but it DOES work the other way around. When things are true, they
tend to eventually enter the common wisdom, and they stay every bit as
true.

Which is why I take issue with the idea that the common wisdom "is
wrong more often than not". There is a constant stream of ideas
entering the common wisdom. Those which are false eventually drop out
of it, while those which are true stay there forever. It seems
self-evident that the common wisdom inevitably ends up being dominated
by truths.