Great ideas are incubated dumb ones

Estonia announced it will give AI agents digital IDs, and people are kind of skeptical and negative about it. I'm not. I think there's something to this.

In general, I try not to shoot down new ideas by arguing against them as a knee-jerk reaction. Many ideas, when born, look quite weak or dumb. But if you don't incubate them, if you don't figure out what's there and develop them, you will never get anything new. So I'm in the camp of: there's something in here, let's investigate, let's figure it out.

I don't have a lot of respect for people who only ever shoot things down. It's fine to evaluate things critically if you also create new things. But most people don't.