June 28th, 2020
- More writing on Self-Organized Criticality
- Dug this quote from The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete
- > With millions of scientists worldwide producing incremental contributions, the only way to have those contributions add up to something significant is if others can reliably build on them.
- connects with something like much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly
- article
- talks about the very unusual social process that occurs in the first few weeks of college, where it's common knowledge that everyone is wanting to make friends and isn't part of established groups, and so you can just walk up to people and say hi
- prompted some reflections about the value of maintaining states
- interesting thread by Venkat / @vgr re economics & the importance of thinking
- these tweets also relate to much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly
- related but distinct: the mythical man month, or the mythical woman month:
- these tweets connect with What is Blame? and how blame is not a useful explanation. Venkat is essentially noting here that if he were to commiserate (ie join in blame) it would impair his ability to think on their behalf