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I had a low opinion of Taleb before, but this essay is actually pretty good. Edit: but it's not new. The idea that concentrated interests > diffuse interests w
by cousin_it 7y ago
I had a low opinion of Taleb before, but this essay is actually pretty good.
Edit: but it's not new. The idea that concentrated interests > diffuse interests was formulated by Olson in 1965, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
- specialist 7y agoIts game theoretic framing of group decision making is seminal. I've participated in a handful of standards committee type orgs. I so wish I had read Logic of Collection Action earlier. It might have saved me a great deal of heart ache.