Nodal Point of Thought 2023-05-15

The Friends of Interesting People are Interesting Hypothesis

• On what principle does it occur? - vibes is similar - Ph.D. can be in any field.

But not everyone with expertise is interesting.

• The "I can only understand one step ahead of myself." hypothesis.

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  • In the end it depends on what knowledge distribution you have.
  • The most interesting hypothesis is the one that gives me awareness of something I've already thought about but didn't understand.
    • People who are one step ahead of themselves.

• Are diversity and selection in conflict? People who contribute to change ↔ People who get in the way of change.

• Most people are vulnerable to change.

• Don't want to see people who are vulnerable to change suffer from a changing environment.

  • Then why not follow those who like change and see the world only for them?
    • Formation of early adopter groups
  • We don't have to look back.
    • Even if a new continent is discovered, not everyone will emigrate.

Why do you think change is good?

• Want to see something new?

New Bugs

Ability to abstract and understand the other person's story in your own way

• You really understand.
  • I thought you could only understand one step beyond what you were thinking.
  • Especially in the "disappearing" and "limited thinking time" communication format of conversation.

People who are too hasty in their interpretations.

• Assume one interpretation of what you see
• fill in the blank ↔ delve into.
  • The theory that a person with a deviation of 55 is harmful
    • He is not very smart, but because he is easily understood by the majority, he is held up as a smart person, and he falsely believes that he is.
      • Because these people are in a position to make strategies for the organization, the organization makes foolish strategies.
      • It's like An ordinary man killing a genius.
  • Trade-offs between use and exploration
  • What does "bury" mean?
    • Pretend you didn't see something you don't understand, keep it away, cover it up, cover it with dirt and bury it.
  • What does "digging in" mean?
    • cut (a stencil, on a mimeograph)
    • materialize
    • subdivide
    • increase resolution (e.g. of a file)
    • Cut out only what you can understand.
    • The opposite of [They put it in a jar and mix it up.
    • Separated and carved out.

Building a social system on top of Ethereum would make it easier to replace it.

• New computers built virtually on top of many computers scattered around the world
• Strongly resistant to attack because of its dispersion.
• serious
• A nation can be sustained even when its people are scattered.
• Physical Movement
  • Government Transfers
  • A New Place to Escape
    • Web3 World

Population is the power of a nation.

• food production
  • It is both a productive force and a cost.
• The people are not always flesh and blood.
  • AI that eats electricity and performs information labor
• Population is the size of the domestic market
  • I doubt that.
  • With the advent of LLM in the information industry, language barriers will be eliminated and the domestic market may be destroyed.
    • In that sense, China's Great Firewall is a useful barrier to entry.

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