The conclusion he's leading to, that very hard problems are bargains, is almost certainly true, and would be true even if effort did grow linearly with value, because people are so afraid of hard problems that few undertake them. They are thus like undervalued stocks.
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But surely the amount of energy spent - how hard you work at a problem - isn’t the only variable that determines ultimate success in solving.
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do we then need alternative incentives to work problems that have little capitalist value, i.e. social/environment value.
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Thanks for sharing your insights on this sort of stuff here so often, Paul. I for one like having this food for thought about my career.
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I think it’s much more important with who, for who and some kind of ”person to problem fit”, where you get leverage of your strengths.
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There’s more nuance to the problem being harder as
@rabois suggests.
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