Tag: David Chapman

Lack of strong judgement ability would be prone to Sybil attacks and cuckoo behavior. Makes me think it would result in a lot of parasitism that we see in businesses, such as hostile takeover. We’d see this nitter.net/ultimape/status/1130199862161608705#mPowered by WPeMatico

The challenge becomes how to avoid a market for lemons – buyer and seller are at an imbalance in knowledge, makes efficient market hard to do. How do you tell a clunker from a fit-for-purpose machine if in a position of less knowlege than the sales team? nitter.net/ultimape/status/804836961089363968#mPowered by WPeMatico

Extrapolating the incentives, analogizing the bureaucratic/administrative roles to innovative problem solving here makes me think that the issue might be similar to this concept of “Innovation Theatre”. piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=k3Ccl7V-… Powered by WPeMatico

Not saying it’s a bad idea per-se, just that I think underlying aspects of learning and adaptation need to be surfaced to make it work. I’d suspect that a naive approach to the administration market would be a market for lemons / keynesian beauty context.Powered by WPeMatico

The Toyota one is a neat example because it highlights how imitation can often work really really well when a practice is lifted wholesale, but ends up failing when it is outside of it’s original element. nitter.net/ultimape/status/1440920705198088195#mPowered by WPeMatico

It’s a great essay series. Also fits well in this particular conversation, since Devereaux agrees that the fall of Western Rome was an unmitigated disaster, but says explicitly that Rome was not at the cusp of something resembling the early modern period.Powered by WPeMatico

Systems have salespeople, who argue passionately in their favor. Confused stances are memes that people unknowingly propagate. – @MeaningnessPowered by WPeMatico

I also had it in mindPowered by WPeMatico

This is important in Evolving Ground too. We’re honoring skepticism – training reasonable disagreement, violent agreement, passionate, spacious communication. All these take trial and error. They’re learned and practiced. When they’re present, they give rise to personal autonomy.Powered by WPeMatico

Bret Devereaux recently did a really good three-part blog series on Rome’s decline and fall. acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collec… Powered by WPeMatico