> If you have something truly paradigm changing you are not going to be able to get reasonable suggestions about it from big public discussions
To be more clear, i am not looking for discussions on the actual problem and/or solution. I am trying to figure out how to deal with the "fear" part. If anyone has experiences regarding this it would be really useful.
> When you say you have gained some insights about a domain, it sounds also like you might be a crank
The reason for the abstraction, was so discussion can be foucused on dealing with the "Fear" part as mentioned above. I have a whole lot of self-doubt:
- Is it really paradigm shifting?
- Is it possible?
- Can it be done?,
- Can i do it?
> Finally when someone says they have a paradigm changing thing but cannot divulge it, some people may feel the person is either pretentious
Fully undersand this. There is a reason for not divulging on this forum. Mostly what i have been doing is having conversations with other people about it. Never introducing it as "paradigm shifting".
My conversations are usually around
- Testing my assumptions
- Testing experts understanding of the problems
Mostly when i ask the "experts" in the area, they mostly agree that it is broken, it is not doing what it supposed to do. However they are caught in an never-ending cycle, and do not see a way out.
> All of which says if you believe strongly you can change the paradigm you will have to do something to show it to people, and even the people you show it to (in my experience) will probably be too limited to see then possibilities in what you propose. The proof is in the pudding, and the weirder the pudding the more you will have to work to get people to eat it and realize how delicious it actually is.
Fully Agree, anything completely new hits up against old mental models, and ways of doing things.
> Also when someone says their idea sparks fear in them because of the implications this is also a weird thing, because it implies what - a possible result of your idea is dystopia, mass extinction...?
This is fear in me, not about the IMPACT the this will have.
* Are there any strategies people in a similar situation have used to move pass this? *
“Segregation is technically illegal, but if you look at a census map for 8 Mile Rd in Michigan, it’s all white people to the north and black people to the south”
Is theRe a historic reason for this, or example of schellings segregation model?
Hence have been testing assumptions.