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Hmm.. that's 2016 and I got it from Marc circa 2014, so I suspect it's older, unless Marc's the origin
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is this any deeper than "Why do I always find lost items in the last place I look?"
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yes because perfection implies more than just last position in a sequence
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it doesn't say it's perfect, just that we stop perfecting it.
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The last VCR could have been improved, but nobody cared to.
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that’s not my point at all. Some things actually had no further to go
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I don't see how you can distinguish the end of opportunity vs. the end of motivation.
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easily. Most tech does not scale or improve indefinitely. You couldn’t drive oil tankers by sail
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I don't see a causative link between the plateau and obsolescence; peak perfection is illusory.
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local optimum. It can jump if economic env of adaptation shifts. Cf: America's Cup sail boats



