The Poor Man's vision is the Smart Man's vision, simulated against the Lazy Man's incentives and the Unskilled Man's ability.
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@VitalikButerin shares opinions on how blockchain may work in the future, it should update your priors more in terms of direction than end state. Ask what the “poor man’s vision” is. It’ll help you sniff out more of the end state probability distributionShow this thread -
Ambition and youthful idealism have a complex relationship. More likely to bite off more than you can chew if you don’t realize how big the bite is. Related: anticipating user behavior is hard. Maybe letting the market degrade design elegance is optimal. Aim for 80/20, get 60/40
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I'm skeptical of the "worse is better" narrative that just looks at the content of the technology, as said earlier: https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1055158666007998464 … eg seems equally plausible that Unix won because AT&T gave it out free to universities for regulatory reasons or whatever, not its design
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Paradigm shifts are always going to have tons of roots and deciding moments, but I think it’s hard to deny a pattern. I like the Semantic Web example because it’s actually an unrealized intention and not a product that didn’t get adoption.
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seems like philosophical inertia - its cognitively easier to accept slightly better mousetraps than adapt to a radically (regardless of how much better) different solution/strategy..
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There are a number of reasons why WorseIsBetter solutions tend to win. http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WorseIsBetter …
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My hypothesis is that it's "conceptual simplicity" rather than "adopter laziness" that choses winners – UNIX/Linux/JSWeb are simpler for beginners to reason about than their alternatives.
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Worse-is-easier-to-understand or Worse-is-based-on-things-people-already-know
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