How might communities be worse at pushing people to their comparative adv than markets? Loose feedback? Prestige? Relevant to graham quote about progress = winning depends on being right. It should depend on being right in a comparatively advantageous way.
Google stuff about markets and comparative advantage (lol)
- Gains from trade is obviously relevant here
I’m guessing constant pressure towards legibly NTI research leads to a similar thing as research in (non-monopolistic, e.g. not bell labs) private research orgs, where the competitive pressures aren’t long-time horizon enough and not tuned to long shot bets which have massive reputational rewards if they work.
Don’t legibility-max when there’s lucrative long-tailed upside. (book on ignorance as the driver of scientific progress?)
this is what knowing anything is like! (not dissing the tweet; agreeing + elaborating). knowing about architecture means buildings are legible in a different way; knowing about plants and birds makes hikes more stimulating, playing music makes listening to it richer, etc
- It’s so wild that there are people who can identify cars by sight. Like instead of “brown truck” or “grey sedan” everywhere they go they’re all “that Mazda Myopia is turning left beside the 2017 Chevy Stigmata”. It must be like seeing those colors only shrimp can see.
- These tweets make a great case for learning lots of things, especially looking-relevant empirical things. Kind of relevant to the two kinds of model (explanatory and attention-guiding (see notes on mathematical explanation also))
- Also this seems to push against buddhist-ish vibes of conceptual knowledge alienates you from the world, at least in this case.
- This is the anti-ostranenie maybe Aesthetics and disinterested liking