I never understood this kind of objection. You yourself state that maybe 10% of users can find some good use for this - and that means that we should stop developing the technology until some arbitrary, higher threshold is met? 10% of users is an incredibly big amount! Why is that too little for this development to make sense?
That’s not how R&D works. It’s really rare to have “progress across the board”, usually you have incremental improvements in specific areas that come together to an across-the-board improvement.
So we’d be getting improvements slower since there’s much less profit from individual advancements, as they can’t be released. What’s the advantage here?
I never understood this kind of objection. You yourself state that maybe 10% of users can find some good use for this - and that means that we should stop developing the technology until some arbitrary, higher threshold is met? 10% of users is an incredibly big amount! Why is that too little for this development to make sense?
I’m not saying “don’t make progress”, I’m saying “try to make progress across the board”.
That’s not how R&D works. It’s really rare to have “progress across the board”, usually you have incremental improvements in specific areas that come together to an across-the-board improvement.
So we’d be getting improvements slower since there’s much less profit from individual advancements, as they can’t be released. What’s the advantage here?