Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · Mar 11

indeed — blogged about this a while back after a #reproducibilitea session where this came up ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe...

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😶 stuart reeves 😶 · Mar 11

maybe an inkling of fear that maybe the 'revolutionary technology' is maybe only 5-10% not 200% change? if it's that amazing, then you shouldn't need to convince people, right? no one was doing loads of work convincing the entire world to buy smartphones, were they? design spoke for itself

Anthony Moser · Mar 11

that's well put, and a good explanation of permission-seeking as a kind of rhetorical derailing. i also blogged about this though less diplomatically lol