Luxurious forager instincts

Oct 15, 2010 08:43

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but Robin Hanson is right way more than that because he's an overclocked wild spinner. He laps the truth at least twice an hour.

On foraging vs farming lifeways, I think he's on to more than he realizes:This transition [ from foraging to farming (= digging + herding) ] meant huge changes in attitudes and ( Read more... )

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Lapped Truth ext_223156 October 19 2010, 19:58:42 UTC
Turns out that innovation is almost uniformly like this. Folks who innovate are both more wrong AND more right than normal. Ain't no one got a truth-geiger-counter.

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harrumph! perspectivism October 19 2010, 20:27:18 UTC

I'd award at least a $23 bounty for every substantial error you catch in Eli's Sequences.

Is he not an innovative enough target?!

Am I too biased a judge (i.e., you'd spot errors but couldn't easily enough convince me you're right?)?

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