Slightly meta: I believe “Chicken-and-egg problem” is what we call a coordination problem with exactly 2 moving parts. (Or at least, that’s how I was framing this problem internally when writing the OP.) And yeah, when you say ‘reach out on the individual level’, I think that’s definitely a part of how to get it started—I think of it as adding free energy and doing things that don’t scale, which is often the correct way to jump to a new Nash equilibrium. (Though I want to think carefully about the initial conditions before initiating, so that the new state unfolds well in the long run.)
On the object level, I feel like you underestimated the desired number of exploration venues by a couple orders of magnitude. Analogous perhaps to the ratio of math departments to math journals, say. Or subgroups-within-math-departments, to math journals.
Slightly meta: I believe “Chicken-and-egg problem” is what we call a coordination problem with exactly 2 moving parts. (Or at least, that’s how I was framing this problem internally when writing the OP.) And yeah, when you say ‘reach out on the individual level’, I think that’s definitely a part of how to get it started—I think of it as adding free energy and doing things that don’t scale, which is often the correct way to jump to a new Nash equilibrium. (Though I want to think carefully about the initial conditions before initiating, so that the new state unfolds well in the long run.)
On the object level, I feel like you underestimated the desired number of exploration venues by a couple orders of magnitude. Analogous perhaps to the ratio of math departments to math journals, say. Or subgroups-within-math-departments, to math journals.