> What's true in [CatB] isn't interesting ("the importance of having users", "release early release often") and what's interesting isn't true ("Linus's law" being perhaps the most notorious example).
At the time or now? You were there, and so might mean the former, but I suspect most of the discussion here means the latter. And as a work of philosophy that has been assimilated into the mainstream, CatB has to look like a mix of trivially true and blatantly false things—that’s what mainstream acceptance of philosophy looks like[1,2].
At the time or now? You were there, and so might mean the former, but I suspect most of the discussion here means the latter. And as a work of philosophy that has been assimilated into the mainstream, CatB has to look like a mix of trivially true and blatantly false things—that’s what mainstream acceptance of philosophy looks like[1,2].
[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philos...
[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/17/highlights-from-the-co...