Totally agree that the different failure modes are in reality interrelated and dependent. In fact, one (“necessary despot”) is a consequence of trying to counter some of the others. I do feel that there’s enough similarity between some of the failure modes at different sites that’s it’s worth trying to name them. The temporal dimension is also an interesting point. I actually went back and looked at some of the comments on Marginal Revolution posts years ago. They are pretty terrible today, but years ago they were quite good.
Totally agree that the different failure modes are in reality interrelated and dependent. In fact, one (“necessary despot”) is a consequence of trying to counter some of the others. I do feel that there’s enough similarity between some of the failure modes at different sites that’s it’s worth trying to name them. The temporal dimension is also an interesting point. I actually went back and looked at some of the comments on Marginal Revolution posts years ago. They are pretty terrible today, but years ago they were quite good.