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Viliam_Bur comments on Open Thread, May 12 - 18, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 12 May 2014 09:30:09PM 3 points [-]

Younger people haven't been consistently right. They support bad ideas as often as any other group but those are rejected and forgotten.

This can be tested. Organize a huge youth conference that will provide dozens of new ideas. Record the ideas, wait 20 years, and review them; wait 50 years and review them yet again. Also, compare with new good things that happened meanwhile, but were not suggested at the conference.