Curated. I don’t think we’re past the point where exposition of how incentives and information flows shape things is valuables. The default lens we/society thinks in terms of is raw power (bigger/stronger/whatever) being the reason for supremacy, and it just feels very instructive to say that just as decisive in how things go is information and motivation. Relatedly, you get things like some places flourishing and some floundering because of different regulatory environments, Goodhart’s. In general, kudos to Arjun for writing that exposes how maybe the actual reason for things isn’t what you’d immediately assume, e.g. perhaps it’s just population size.
Curated. I don’t think we’re past the point where exposition of how incentives and information flows shape things is valuables. The default lens we/society thinks in terms of is raw power (bigger/stronger/whatever) being the reason for supremacy, and it just feels very instructive to say that just as decisive in how things go is information and motivation. Relatedly, you get things like some places flourishing and some floundering because of different regulatory environments, Goodhart’s. In general, kudos to Arjun for writing that exposes how maybe the actual reason for things isn’t what you’d immediately assume, e.g. perhaps it’s just population size.