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David Deutsch 30. sij
Yet instead of doing what would be fun, and thereby maybe solving stuff, people do what they're told they 'must', or what they think they 'should'.
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michael_nielsen 30. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @DavidDeutschOxf
Was reflecting on a related thought earlier: my income over the years has typically been anti-correlated with the social value of whatever I'm doing. (There are exceptions). I don't think this is unusual at all: the labor market for creative work seems mindbogglingly inefficient
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michael_nielsen 30. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @DavidDeutschOxf
This seems intrinsic: the greatest creative opportunity lies where institutions (inc. the labor market) fears to tread. To some extent they're valuable opportunities _because_ institutions won't operate there.
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michael_nielsen
I call this Groucho's law: you should never work on any project for which can get funding. Tongue-in-cheek, but there's a grain of truth to it: the easier funding is to get, the more likely something like it would have happened anyway.
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michael_nielsen 30. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @DavidDeutschOxf
Hmm, flipping that about: if you want to be a useful funder, maybe you should never fund a project that anyone else in the world would fund. Which sounds nuts, but has the benefit you're sure any impact was additional.
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Patrick McKenzie 30. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @michael_nielsen @DavidDeutschOxf
A thing I feel moderately strongly about and hope to experiment with eventually: the first for some X which funders broadly consider is not just too low to matter but too low for them to even *contemplate a funding decision* would unblock stupendous amounts of value.
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