I can’t think of any economic model that would more select for the ability to take pieces of cognitive architecture and put them together into novel ways. Weren’t you the one who said science was going too slow, and that a true Bayesian should be able to solve shallow problems in, let’s say a quarter hour and more complex ones like unified physics in a week? That does not sound “old style of work” to me, but it does moreso sound, amusingly, “glib memetics”—and “startups”. Similarly, the Agile model of development is to accept doing damage but be aware of it as you do so—make the feature usable, then move on but put a cleanup task in the backlog. At least where I work, modern-style seems more reactive and demanding of fluidity, and startup/gig work can only increase that. I think we’re kind of in a transition phase where the human mind is being effectively operationalized as a target platform, but large parts of the population haven’t fully evolved the software to actually manage being treated as a target, and social systems are taking full advantage. But society is also taking advantage of the increased flexibility on offer here, and in the medium run self-awareness will have to catch up to be able to keep up and frontrun the rapidly-evolving memetic environment. At least that’s my expectation.
Eh, the gig economy will fix it.
I can’t think of any economic model that would more select for the ability to take pieces of cognitive architecture and put them together into novel ways. Weren’t you the one who said science was going too slow, and that a true Bayesian should be able to solve shallow problems in, let’s say a quarter hour and more complex ones like unified physics in a week? That does not sound “old style of work” to me, but it does moreso sound, amusingly, “glib memetics”—and “startups”. Similarly, the Agile model of development is to accept doing damage but be aware of it as you do so—make the feature usable, then move on but put a cleanup task in the backlog. At least where I work, modern-style seems more reactive and demanding of fluidity, and startup/gig work can only increase that. I think we’re kind of in a transition phase where the human mind is being effectively operationalized as a target platform, but large parts of the population haven’t fully evolved the software to actually manage being treated as a target, and social systems are taking full advantage. But society is also taking advantage of the increased flexibility on offer here, and in the medium run self-awareness will have to catch up to be able to keep up and frontrun the rapidly-evolving memetic environment. At least that’s my expectation.