Typo 3 tweets up: O_DA, not O_ODA A non-orienting OODA loop. Like “learning” to solve sudokus at 70 while comfortably retired is stimulation seeking, not learning in hard sense lifelong learning people act like they’re doing. You could call that lifelong learning but it’s weak.
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It’s even a contradiction in terms. Immortalist learning would be a better term. By definition “life” is finite, with non-learning boundary conditions. Lifelong learning implies a sawtooth wave discontinuity at the end of life. As in my joke a few tweets up.
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The arguments against endless-growth capitalism are different (resource limits, mounting externalities) but that too is endless learning. But at least there it’s kinda well-posed since the economy might be immortal for all we know. The market might really be an eternal learner.
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Doesn’t the word “growth” mean something specific in capitalism (becoming larger) and something general in learning (becoming “better”/more enlightened)?
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On the surface yes, but underneath, no. The economy is a learning system. “Knowledge economy” is tautological. As is “idea markets”

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Larry Ellison sure as shit doesn’t need to learn anything new. Same for Bezos and Thiel and probably Trump. Why should I?
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That’s the spirit!
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