Thank you for the effort and clarity of thought you’re putting into this. One thing you may already be considering, but I haven’t seen it addressed directly:
Hobbyists vs fanatics vs professionals (or core/periphery, or founders/followers/exploiters, or any other acknowledgement of different individual capabilities and motives). What parts of “the community” are you talking about when you address various issues? You hint at this in the money/distortion topic, but you’re in danger of abstracting “motivation” way too far, and missing the important details of individual variation.
Also, it’s possible that you’re overestimating the need for legibility of reasoning over correctness of action (in the rational sense, of furthering one’s true goals). I very much dispute “We don’t seem to do much better than average”, unless you’re seriously cherry-picking your reference set. We do _WAY_ better than average both in terms of impact and in terms of transparency of reasoning. I’d love to explore some benchmarks (and copy some behaviors) if you can identify groups with similar composition and similar difficult-to-quantify goals, that are far more effective
Thank you for the effort and clarity of thought you’re putting into this. One thing you may already be considering, but I haven’t seen it addressed directly:
Hobbyists vs fanatics vs professionals (or core/periphery, or founders/followers/exploiters, or any other acknowledgement of different individual capabilities and motives). What parts of “the community” are you talking about when you address various issues? You hint at this in the money/distortion topic, but you’re in danger of abstracting “motivation” way too far, and missing the important details of individual variation.
Also, it’s possible that you’re overestimating the need for legibility of reasoning over correctness of action (in the rational sense, of furthering one’s true goals). I very much dispute “We don’t seem to do much better than average”, unless you’re seriously cherry-picking your reference set. We do _WAY_ better than average both in terms of impact and in terms of transparency of reasoning. I’d love to explore some benchmarks (and copy some behaviors) if you can identify groups with similar composition and similar difficult-to-quantify goals, that are far more effective