If you have a good plan for how that could help then I might be able to muster some tears? But I doubt it shows up as a step in winning plans.
If you want to compare them to friendly fools drunk on their blind faith that how bad could it be ha ha, well, I can’t say you’re wrong, but I don’t know what they would say.
This write-up felt like it was net positive to write in almost any world? (And if you think I’m wrong, please let me know in public or in private.)
First, the comparison to “Friendly Drunk Fools” might awaken up some honor-loving Timocrats to the folly of their essential confusion? Surely no one wants to be seriously associated with something as lacking in the halo of prestige as the “Friendly Drunk Fool” plan, right?
Second, I really do think that Myerson–Satterthwaite is a deep result that relates honesty, incentives, and servant leadership in a non-trivial way. It kind of predicts potlatching, as a practice! Almost anyone who understands that “incentive compatibility” is a magic word, who hasn’t looked at this theorem, should study the MST some more. (And if they don’t know about incentive compatibility then start with that.)
Third, it might work for the people who insist that it isn’t a confused plan, who accuse me of creating a straw-man, to attempt a dunk on me by steelmanning the FDF somehow into something as coherent and workable as a safe bridge design and that would be… better than the alternatives!
I had fourth, fifth, and sixth points, but they are plausibly pointless to talk about in public. The fourth one descended into quoting Solzhenitsyn, which is usually a sign one should wrap up their speech <3
I don’t think that weeping helps?
If you have a good plan for how that could help then I might be able to muster some tears? But I doubt it shows up as a step in winning plans.
This write-up felt like it was net positive to write in almost any world? (And if you think I’m wrong, please let me know in public or in private.)
First, the comparison to “Friendly Drunk Fools” might awaken up some honor-loving Timocrats to the folly of their essential confusion? Surely no one wants to be seriously associated with something as lacking in the halo of prestige as the “Friendly Drunk Fool” plan, right?
Second, I really do think that Myerson–Satterthwaite is a deep result that relates honesty, incentives, and servant leadership in a non-trivial way. It kind of predicts potlatching, as a practice! Almost anyone who understands that “incentive compatibility” is a magic word, who hasn’t looked at this theorem, should study the MST some more. (And if they don’t know about incentive compatibility then start with that.)
Third, it might work for the people who insist that it isn’t a confused plan, who accuse me of creating a straw-man, to attempt a dunk on me by steelmanning the FDF somehow into something as coherent and workable as a safe bridge design and that would be… better than the alternatives!
I had fourth, fifth, and sixth points, but they are plausibly pointless to talk about in public. The fourth one descended into quoting Solzhenitsyn, which is usually a sign one should wrap up their speech <3
I am warming to your style. :)