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> "The real world is not like this; the game is not zero-sum. When you write an article, it doesn't directly make someone else's articles more or less valuable"
by nivertech 16y ago
> "The real world is not like this; the game is not zero-sum. When you write an article, it doesn't directly make someone else's articles more or less valuable"
Are you sure about this? It's always zero-sum game!
When somebody (Apple and Google) creates a new smartphone devices, it make someone else's (RIMM and Nokia) smartphones less valuable.
Even it financial industry, when they say, that derivatives are zero-sum game, while equities aren't. It's not completely true, because equities are hedged by derivatives and vice versa. All assets are interdependent.
- jrockway 16y agoYou have missed the point of my comment, and you're also wrong. The next generation of smartphones will enhance the technology that the current generation of smartphones introduced. Sure, you might get some extra profit by releasing your cool new feature a month sooner, but your competitors also get an extra month to play with your new feature and make it even better for their next generation of phones. And so the cycle continues; making the iterations shorter with mind-enhancing drugs doesn't make much difference in the end. In the financial industry, we have much better tools for trading derivatives than humans on Provigil. They're called "computers".