It’s not clear what the opposing forces are. There must besomething, or we’d instantly race to the bottom over just a couple election cycles. Maybe politicians are just slow on adopting such a repulsive strategy?
One relevant factor from the dialogue is that the Overton window limits politicians’ ability to creatively offend each other; “serious” policies and behaviors will tend to be relatively mainstream, traditional, and non-outrageous.
Thanks. The Overton Window stuff was mainly about why First Past The Post might be stuck in metaphorical molasses, and I hadn’t generalized the concept to other things yet.
Side note: this also gives an interesting glimpse into what it feels like from the inside to have one’s conceptual framework become more interconnected. Tools and mental models can exist happily side by side without interacting, even while explicitly wondering about a gap in one’s model that could be filled by another tool/model you already know.
It takes some activation energy (in the form of Actually Trying, ie thinking about it and only it for 5+ minutes by the clock), and then maybe you’ll get lucky enough to try the right couple pieces in the right geometry, and get model that that makes sense on reflection.
This suggests that re-reading the book later might be high-value, since it would help increase the cross-linking in my Bayesian net or whatever it is our brains think with.
One relevant factor from the dialogue is that the Overton window limits politicians’ ability to creatively offend each other; “serious” policies and behaviors will tend to be relatively mainstream, traditional, and non-outrageous.
Thanks. The Overton Window stuff was mainly about why First Past The Post might be stuck in metaphorical molasses, and I hadn’t generalized the concept to other things yet.
Side note: this also gives an interesting glimpse into what it feels like from the inside to have one’s conceptual framework become more interconnected. Tools and mental models can exist happily side by side without interacting, even while explicitly wondering about a gap in one’s model that could be filled by another tool/model you already know.
It takes some activation energy (in the form of Actually Trying, ie thinking about it and only it for 5+ minutes by the clock), and then maybe you’ll get lucky enough to try the right couple pieces in the right geometry, and get model that that makes sense on reflection.
This suggests that re-reading the book later might be high-value, since it would help increase the cross-linking in my Bayesian net or whatever it is our brains think with.