Curated. “Cost disease” is an interesting and disturbing phenomenon with no settled, consensus explanation. In my mind, that makes it an interesting test case for our rationality/world modeling. I appreciate this post for taking another crack at the problem and being virtuously empirical in doing so, including nice creative tricks like “count the number of pages in the catalog” as a proxy. Full points for “how to measure anything”-mindset.
Curated. “Cost disease” is an interesting and disturbing phenomenon with no settled, consensus explanation. In my mind, that makes it an interesting test case for our rationality/world modeling. I appreciate this post for taking another crack at the problem and being virtuously empirical in doing so, including nice creative tricks like “count the number of pages in the catalog” as a proxy. Full points for “how to measure anything”-mindset.