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I can easily imagine
Kinda my point. I too can "easily imagine" things -- privileging a hypothesis and describing it vividly achieves exactly that.
Before reading this article, was "Trump as a competent NASA director" a hypothesis in your mind? Did this article provide evidence in favor of it? For me, the answers are "No" and "No". But after reading the article, it became much easier to imagine things like that.
"Trump as a competent NASA director"
Trump is president of the USA and discussing a world in which Trump would be NASA director is a completely different discussion than the one we are having. Confusing the two seems to be a mistake that's worthy of being mentally recognized as such (eg. when you recognize a mistake you see where your model needs updating).
The question is whether the Trump administration could put someone at the head of NASA who acts this way. I listened quite a lot to Peter Thiel and one of Thiel's statement is that the US g...