To both of you, I say “useful relative to what?” Opportunity cost is the baseline for judging that. Are you excited to read N field overviews over your next best option?
Good points by both of you. I like the idea of discovering unknown unknowns.
I should’ve clarified what I meant by ‘useful’. The broader point I was going for is that you can always become Pareto ‘better’ by arbitrarily choosing to compete along evermore dimensions. As you said, once we define a goal, then we can decide whether competing along one more dimension is better than doing something else or not.
To both of you, I say “useful relative to what?” Opportunity cost is the baseline for judging that. Are you excited to read N field overviews over your next best option?
Good points by both of you. I like the idea of discovering unknown unknowns.
I should’ve clarified what I meant by ‘useful’. The broader point I was going for is that you can always become Pareto ‘better’ by arbitrarily choosing to compete along evermore dimensions. As you said, once we define a goal, then we can decide whether competing along one more dimension is better than doing something else or not.