The basic idea is, social boundaries form sub-exponential value-accretion zone wedges for accumulating returns, but all-out effort tends to have a positive feedback loop component which creates exponentially accruing returns over time, which drives value spillover
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Illustration: it’s easy to cook a meal just for yourself or family, but hard to retain a scientific discovery just to yourself or your family, city, tribe, or nation. Partly because a big scientific discovery is an exponential value positive feedback return curve (paradigm shift)
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So it’s hard to go all-out and remain selfish. If you want to prevent some group from enjoying the spillover value of your effort, at some point you have to consciously curtail effort to be constrained by social boundaries, by damping positive feedback in max-effort behavior
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Tldr: explosions by definition cannot be “contained”. Explosions *are* value containment failures.
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I suppose the colored wedges can be viewed as value-extraction rate limit curves. Also Lucy in the chocolate factory effect, which I’d have opened with if I’d thought of it in time.pic.twitter.com/1eFkFJBkGP
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Skill is important, though. Usain Bolt makes all-out effort and has no spillover.
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He runs at Olympic level. That’s already maximum spillover value of athletic social capital to “world”. If random nobody ran that fast at community park, people would watch and a scout would show up. Premise of movies like good will hunting.
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