First, there’s a dual problem: Given a piece of writing that’s along the Pareto frontier, how do you make it easy for readers who might have a utility function aligned with the piece to find it.
Related to this, for many people and many pieces of writing, a large part of the utility they get is from comments. I think this leads to dynamics where a piece where the writing that’s less optimal can get popular and then get to a point on the frontier that’s hard to beat.
I have two thoughts related to this:
First, there’s a dual problem: Given a piece of writing that’s along the Pareto frontier, how do you make it easy for readers who might have a utility function aligned with the piece to find it.
Related to this, for many people and many pieces of writing, a large part of the utility they get is from comments. I think this leads to dynamics where a piece where the writing that’s less optimal can get popular and then get to a point on the frontier that’s hard to beat.