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Clarkian | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Considering his intelligence and background, and some of the things he said in the recent interview, I think he is intentionally NOT being too specific on certain issues, given his high publicity as an individual and also his company's. 

I think he has to be very careful what he talks about and how he talks about it so as not to draw the eye of Sauron
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Bill Monroe | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I'm sure that's true. I just think he maybe should be holding a few more ideas back and workshoping them for a private audience. 

For instance, using the English language as an example for his vision of how a brilliant useful protocol should change, very slowly over time only with careful consideration. Yet English changes in a very anarchic way, sporadically, regionally, in spurts, and sometimes quite drastically. There is no one consensus version of English. And "official" changes within dictionaries and textbooks are recognized only after a certain level of common usage has been adopted in a region, not because anyone has carefully considered each change and come to consensus that it is good for the protocol and protects the rights of all the current English users.
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Clarkian | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yea, that particular analogy is not great