people take the state of the world as it was when they came of age for granted, not realizing how contingent it is on the path thru history their society has traced out; that the only choices possible are tradeoffs btwn different sets of problems, that there is no tree lunch
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RT @incrementalized
funny how "this is all because of Capitalism" has become a shorthand for "this is a difficult coordination problem that capitalism has …
https://twitter.com/incrementalized/status/1467716425494241281
every group of agents seeking to coordinate within a resource-constrained environment will face the same highly non-trivial coordination challenges & must make difficult choices about which dimensions to optimize along & which suboptimalities to accept in exchange for stability
