That maximally comprehensible bit is so relevant. We are limited by the modes with which we communicate, each of which trades some amount of expressiveness for

That maximally comprehensible bit is so relevant. We are limited by the modes with which we communicate, each of which trades some amount of expressiveness for some amount of signal speed. The unfortunate truth is that in the competition between systems, those that achieve higher speeds frequently win in the battle to spread the signal. The executive report that reduces the business to a set of metrics one page long, the tweet that gets shared millions of times, the quippy campaign promise. I've been ruminating on this problem for a long time, and I don't have any answers that I'm satisfied with. The closest I've come to identifying what-to-do is that perhaps if we manage to somehow reduce the global liquidity of communication and reintroduce friction into how ideas spread, perhaps the harder ideas will become more competitive relative to the fast and easy. Put more simply, if everything is made a little more hard, it would benefit the stuff that's already hard. That said, I say it's the "best" idea I've come up with because I recognize that it's still really fraught with disastrous side effects, potentially impossible, and leagues away from actionable. The more I see, the more I understand Hanson's "Great Filter" argument. It all feels pretty bleak.