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Interesting case made against tight feedback loops, by

: brianlui.dog/2020/05/10/bew (Yes, I'm aware it's easy to criticise the essay. But instead of focusing on obvious critique I think it's far more interesting to riff on & develop ways it's correct or near-correct)

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I enjoyed the argument-from-noise. Another argument that resonates for me: I've noticed that many very interesting problems offer no obvious mechanism for short-term feedback. Often a good heuristic is to find ideas you can test easily, but this eliminates many worthy ideas!

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Yeah that resonates. I can’t escape the suspicion that tight feedback loops are indicative of “toy” environments. And at some point having a tight feedback loop may mean you are diluting the learning experience rather than speeding it up