It’s not a hammer, it’s something he explores by testing intuitions about how it could conceivably apply to various contexts. From such exploration, a few more robust themes would emerge, if the idea is any good, even if most of applications considered were arbitrary, with very little explanatory power conferred by the idea.
Robin Hanson greatly overuses the “less/far” model. It’s his hammer, and so he starts seeing the whole world like nails.
It’s not a hammer, it’s something he explores by testing intuitions about how it could conceivably apply to various contexts. From such exploration, a few more robust themes would emerge, if the idea is any good, even if most of applications considered were arbitrary, with very little explanatory power conferred by the idea.
If so, could you, or anyone, finally explain to me what the hell it actually means? Last I checked, the LW wiki on it read like gibberish.