I think 'the most well informed sources' in many things will NOT be the consensus opinion, but vanguard thought trying to get somewhere else beyond the sum total of what's currently known. This is fundamental to science and truth generally.
Disagreeableness is overwhelmingly a quality of such thinking, in the technical psychological sense: agreeableness leads to complying and ceasing to seek alternate thoughts/points.
I run Airwindows and have recently put out a Console system based on applying the absolute minimum alterations to the mantissas of floating point words, just to see what I'd get. That's internal algorithms, volume, and I added panning, doing nearly everything with bit-shifts for this purpose. Got a very interesting sound out of full mixes done this way.
I am as nice as pie, and putting videos on YouTube where I must talk about 'shifting of bits' because Youtube will always think I said 'bitch' and draw conclusions about my video from what it thinks I keep saying. And yet, at the same time, I am intensely disagreeable, because I'm persistently exploring ideas in digital sound that STARKLY contradict what's taught as common knowledge.
I'm not doing this on 4chan, but if I was, it would be every bit as supportive a community to my unusual directions as the 'normal world' is, if not more so. I wouldn't be one bit surprised to know that 4chan had pockets of research or content creation that are leading the world. It wouldn't be the first time 4chan led the world, for good or ill.
Ok, so mostly ill :) but that is because influential is not the same as useful. And the ability of 4chan to put any idea or content into effective practice is grossly stunted as 4chan cannot govern, or organize worth a damn by real-world standards. But it's probably the most likely source for whatever is going to be moving the world twenty years from now, compared to normal sources. It will just immediately lose control of anything that achieves escape velocity.
Think 'petri dish', or perhaps 'rainforest swamp'?
I think 'the most well informed sources' in many things will NOT be the consensus opinion, but vanguard thought trying to get somewhere else beyond the sum total of what's currently known. This is fundamental to science and truth generally.
Disagreeableness is overwhelmingly a quality of such thinking, in the technical psychological sense: agreeableness leads to complying and ceasing to seek alternate thoughts/points.
I run Airwindows and have recently put out a Console system based on applying the absolute minimum alterations to the mantissas of floating point words, just to see what I'd get. That's internal algorithms, volume, and I added panning, doing nearly everything with bit-shifts for this purpose. Got a very interesting sound out of full mixes done this way.
I am as nice as pie, and putting videos on YouTube where I must talk about 'shifting of bits' because Youtube will always think I said 'bitch' and draw conclusions about my video from what it thinks I keep saying. And yet, at the same time, I am intensely disagreeable, because I'm persistently exploring ideas in digital sound that STARKLY contradict what's taught as common knowledge.
I'm not doing this on 4chan, but if I was, it would be every bit as supportive a community to my unusual directions as the 'normal world' is, if not more so. I wouldn't be one bit surprised to know that 4chan had pockets of research or content creation that are leading the world. It wouldn't be the first time 4chan led the world, for good or ill.
Ok, so mostly ill :) but that is because influential is not the same as useful. And the ability of 4chan to put any idea or content into effective practice is grossly stunted as 4chan cannot govern, or organize worth a damn by real-world standards. But it's probably the most likely source for whatever is going to be moving the world twenty years from now, compared to normal sources. It will just immediately lose control of anything that achieves escape velocity.
Think 'petri dish', or perhaps 'rainforest swamp'?