This was the most informative and thought provoking youtube video that I've watched in 6 months at least.

It changed my sense of China, and I've made use of the ideas expressed multiple times since I first watched it (different ideas each time, too).

This is the only one that comes to mind as a contender for value per minute.

Again, I would love recommendations that are similar to either of the above.
Anyone have any?

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18 Mar
Question: Have Moral Mazes been getting worse over time?

Could the growth of Moral Mazes be the cause of cost disease?
I was thinking about how I could answer this question. I think that the thing that I need is a good quantitative measure of how "mazy" an organization is.
I considered the metric of "how much output for each input", but 1) that metric is just cost disease itself, so it doesn't help us distinguish the mazy cause from other possible causes.
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17 Mar
This seems right to me.

I don't know what the cause is. But my guess is that it has to do with the KIND of threat that each adversary poses/posed.

We COULD acknowledge that maybe Japan had some things right. But we can't acknowledge that about China, without loosing our soul.
The fear of Japan was concrete: in near-mode.

We were afraid that they were going to out-compete us by just being smarter and better at the capitalism game.

They were another western-ish liberal Democracy, like us. But they were going to be better than us at it.
The fear of China is different. It's is ideological, far mode.

Like, it isn't just that they'll win on the merits, but they'll win with (because of?) their evil system.

It's not just a material threat, but also a spiritual threat to American ideals.
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8 Mar
I hadn't realized this, but it seems like a crucial insight.

Systems incorporate the powerful effects of the things that they're exposed to, so that there are diminishing marginal returns to those powerful effects.

"Powerful" in this sense is relative to a time and place.
Also (interestingly) related: slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/rea…
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8 Mar
"Maybe, power dynamics in society aren’t so much about who is in charge. The problem is someone has to be."

I'm not sure that this is _necessarily_ true. Is there a way to socialize people so they do a good job of being in charge?
Is it possible to train people to be good rulers? So that the people with privilege are good social stewards instead of assholes?
I don't know. The historical record is not great on this point. It seems like trying to be a social steward tends to morph into thinking that you're better than everyone else, and deserve the best stuff at the expense of everyone else.
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8 Mar
Running with this to see if it holds up:
Example 1: "It's low status to sleep in your car."

I can totally believe that this is code for "'the authorities' don't want you to sleep in your car."
It seems like this kind of thing is punished waayyy out of proportion to the the cost to society (which is basically non-existent, as near as I can tell).

But this is one way to escape from high rents and therefore wage slavery. Thus, punished, and censured as low status.
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7 Mar
Thread, responding to @silencenbetween, on my current guesses about why an emphasis on virtue seems notably absent in our society, compared to my imagining / understanding of other societies in history.
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