attention is zero-sum: there’s a fix supply (well, as a simplification)
As the post notes, zero-sum in resources is not the same as zero-sum in satisfaction. Even if I can only spend a fixed attention budget, how I spend it determine global satisfaction, not just the distribution of satisfaction among players.
yep! I didn’t meant to imply otherwise. but I should have specified, or maybe just phrase differently; ex.: there’s a fixed supply of attention (as a first approximation)
As the post notes, zero-sum in resources is not the same as zero-sum in satisfaction. Even if I can only spend a fixed attention budget, how I spend it determine global satisfaction, not just the distribution of satisfaction among players.
yep! I didn’t meant to imply otherwise. but I should have specified, or maybe just phrase differently; ex.: there’s a fixed supply of attention (as a first approximation)