So much relevant expertise in political science. This would be so much better as a team project that included them.https://twitter.com/GovernorTomWolf/status/962060492175900674 …
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The likelihood that you will get someone who understands the math _and_ the institutional politics _and_ the local specificities of Pennsylvania politics is obviously very low. Genius travels - but nearly always within a specific ambit and with a specific bag of tricks.
That's my point - in specifics, the statement seems to be reduced to something approaching a commonly-agreed truism. It'd be nice to understand the detailed tradeoff better.
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I don’t think it is necessarily a truism (esp. given cult of lone genius) but I do think that we need a ton more on the specific mechanisms through which different perspectives do or do not cumulate well (it’s assumed as more or less automatic in his work).
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I'm skeptical the cult is as strong as people say. Everyone I've ever talked to about it disavows it thoroughly (while also acknowledging that people like von Neumann were pretty darn unusual). It seems more like a convenient writer's trope.
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I've only read Page's early work on this (up to his book), so perhaps the situation has changed(?) I liked the work enough - I quote it in my book "Reinventing Discovery" - but wish the tradeoff was a lot sharper.
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He’s more recently trying to come up with different ways of representing the process - a more detailed formal account of cognitive differences, plus the stuff he borrows from ML on bagging and boosting as techniques to help.
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