I like the content/concept here but feel “curse of doom” doesn’t communicate the idea very well. This does seem like effectively a curse of dimensionality though? (Perhaps that’s what inspired this name). Not sure of “Pareto Best of the Curse of Dimensionality” is the right name, but I think it gets at the idea better than generic “doom”.
One problem with this whole GEM-vs-Pareto concept: if chasing a Pareto frontier makes it easier to circumvent GEM and gain a big windfall, then why doesn’t everyone chase a Pareto frontier? Apply GEM to the entire system: why haven’t people already picked up the opportunities lying on all these Pareto frontiers?
Answer: dimensionality. If there’s 100 different specialties, then there’s only 100 people who are the best within their specialty. But there’s 10k pairs of specialties (e.g. statistics/gerontology), 1M triples (e.g. statistics/gerontology/macroeconomics), and something like 10^30 combinations of specialties. And each of those pareto frontiers has room for more than one person, even allowing for elbow room. Even if only a small fraction of those combinations are useful, there’s still a lot of space to stake out a territory.
That said, the way John talks about it there I think ‘boon of dimensionality’ might be more apt still, but in Screwtape’s context ‘curse’ is right.
Fair. In my head, “Curse of doom” is generic but attaches to “Pareto Best.” There are many curses, here’s one. I didn’t manage to come up with a name for it that I loved, so I went with something that felt okay. Curse of Dimensionality is more specific but I feel like it doesn’t get at the idea enough to feel useful? Alternate titles:
Curse of Doom
Curse of Dimensionality
Curse of Options
Curse of Overlap
Pareto’s Curse
Pareto Gaps
Gap of Good Skill
Empty Frontiers
It does feel curse like to me but that’s more poetry than precision.
I like the content/concept here but feel “curse of doom” doesn’t communicate the idea very well. This does seem like effectively a curse of dimensionality though? (Perhaps that’s what inspired this name). Not sure of “Pareto Best of the Curse of Dimensionality” is the right name, but I think it gets at the idea better than generic “doom”.
I think curse of dimensionality is apt, since the prerequisite reading directly references it:
That said, the way John talks about it there I think ‘boon of dimensionality’ might be more apt still, but in Screwtape’s context ‘curse’ is right.
Fair. In my head, “Curse of doom” is generic but attaches to “Pareto Best.” There are many curses, here’s one. I didn’t manage to come up with a name for it that I loved, so I went with something that felt okay. Curse of Dimensionality is more specific but I feel like it doesn’t get at the idea enough to feel useful? Alternate titles:
Curse of Doom
Curse of Dimensionality
Curse of Options
Curse of Overlap
Pareto’s Curse
Pareto Gaps
Gap of Good Skill
Empty Frontiers
It does feel curse like to me but that’s more poetry than precision.
Sparsity seems like maybe a relevant keyword.