Broadcasting is good for transferring information from people with more valuable time to people with less valuable time—in those cases “using up the explainer’s time” much more than doubles the cost.
Maybe the way I would put it is: “Some people have much better things to say than others.”
If I have to get everything from one-on-one conversation, then I only have access to the thoughts of the people I can get access to in person.
So then, whether it’s worth it to do broadcasting would depend on:
1) How much does information content degrade if it’s passed around by word of mouth?
2) How much better are the best ideas in our community than median ideas?
3) How valuable is it for the median person to hear the best ideas?
In my envisioned world, the listener compensates the talker in some other way (if the talker is not sufficiently motivated by helping/influencing the listener). It won’t usually be the case that the talker can be compensated by taking a turn as the listener, unless the desired exchange of information happens to line up perfectly that day.
“How much does information content degrade if it’s passed around by word of mouth?” matters for the particular alternative strategy where you try to do a bucket brigade from people with more valuable time to people with less valuable time.
I think something like this is a crux for me:
Maybe the way I would put it is: “Some people have much better things to say than others.”
If I have to get everything from one-on-one conversation, then I only have access to the thoughts of the people I can get access to in person.
So then, whether it’s worth it to do broadcasting would depend on:
1) How much does information content degrade if it’s passed around by word of mouth?
2) How much better are the best ideas in our community than median ideas?
3) How valuable is it for the median person to hear the best ideas?
In my envisioned world, the listener compensates the talker in some other way (if the talker is not sufficiently motivated by helping/influencing the listener). It won’t usually be the case that the talker can be compensated by taking a turn as the listener, unless the desired exchange of information happens to line up perfectly that day.
“How much does information content degrade if it’s passed around by word of mouth?” matters for the particular alternative strategy where you try to do a bucket brigade from people with more valuable time to people with less valuable time.