If I had to top-down optimize civilization to maximize output of one thing, it would be rate of production of good light science fiction, where good is my personal opinion.
What's your paperclip utility function?
high quality quote tweets - a measure of people reading other people’s work and introducing it to other people in relevant context. Kind of like a pagerank type thing. Hypertextuality
Both true I think. Ppl who should write don’t and people who shouldn’t do. I’m willing to tolerate a lot more cringe for about 1% more high quality gems, especially if I have a network of other ppl to do the discovery for me