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What makes a subject or information source easy to overindex on? I suspect it is being at the edge of legibility. A satisfying basic epistemic structure with infinitely deep margins of nerd-out value.
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Overindexing is a central skill in making your own viable reality. The narrow knowledge base has to distort your overall knowledge base. Otherwise you just end up with a bit of zombie non-loving knowledge.
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A good overindexing subject is one where nerding out over the collateral is almost as satisfying as nerding out over the thing itself. Come for the X Stay for the nerd-interest graph around X Become terminally trapped by the social graph around X For X=Charlie Munger for eg
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Good copypasta results from taking some overindexed thinking out of its social context Navy seal, Rick and north high IQ, what else?
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Yep.. I think information about powerful entities/interactions in the context of a narrow scope/escaped reality makes it easy to overindex. Think sci-fi/Hogwarts/LoTR or dinosaurs for young kids. The fact that it doesn't apply to the "real" world makes it more fun & approachable.
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