11-3.3 'The law of diminishing returns' - We can recalibrate the curve so that we are always at the growing phase of the S-curve!

This applies to the individual level.

Related:

• 2-1c1a2 The attract-extract cycle - Bigger networks have less to gain and more to lose by interoperating
  • The inevitability of the S-curve
    • https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/why-web3-matters/
  • But remember: 5-1b1a4 We can run multiple billion-dollar functions either sequentially or simultaneously. Or preferably both.
    • 3-1c3c3 Take ideas seriously, but not too seriously. Don’t be the idea.
      • 5-1b1a3 We are more than technology, because we create knowledge-technology. We are more than functions. Don’t be a function.
        • 3-1c3d2b Chasing growth ⇒ Keep redefining the problems to be solved
          • 2-1a6c3 ‘Global and local maxima’ - Don’t prematurely overoptimize. Occasionally throw in some ‘randomness’.
            • Tl;dr - We can recalibrate the curve by recalibrating ourselves so that we will be always at the growing phase of the S-curve

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“It is easier to grow very fast when you are pulling people out of poverty than to do so when you need to import your poor. Alas, countries—like people—tend to borrow more when they are rich than when they are poor, that is, when they don’t need to borrow, then get into trouble with spiraling financial obligations. The problem is that it is saturated economies, like the U.S. and Europe, that carry the most debt. There’s a French saying: On ne prête qu’aux riches (“One only lends to the rich”). But when you’re rich and borrow heavily, you need growth to service that debt, which is harder at the top of the S-curve. If your assets can be frozen, why take the risk of holding dollars (or Euros since the U.S. bullied Europe into following suit)? Central banks are shifting to gold, which has rallied significantly, as BRICS countries move away from dollar reserves.” – Nassim Taleb (20250923) <> 2-1b2b0b Do not underestimate the essential—don’t risk what you have and need, to get what you don’t need <> 3-1c2e4.2 ‘Supply and demand’ - Physical is getting expensive

At the level of respective network, saturation is inevitable.

Related:

• 1-2g2s7b3 An explanation for how something really works cannot rely on infinity
• 2-2c ‘Tragedy of the commons’ - Also look for negative lollapalooza effects (‘devolution’)
• 2-2d Gresham’s Law generalized—the bad practice drives out the good

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Next:

• 11-3.3a The law of returns—with the quantity of complementary factors held constant, there always exists some optimum amount of the varying factor
• 11-3.4 ‘Utility’ (marginal, diminishing, increasing) - Specialization beats the Invisible Hand

Related:
4-1a4b2a3 整理 = 意識的にすてること

• すてる (as method against the law of diminishing return!)
  • 知識量の増大による飽和状態 ⇒ 知識欲の低下
    • 収穫逓減の法則
    • 習得した知識をいかにしてすて、整理するか
      • 分類 ≠ 整理
        • 忘却 = 自然に廃棄すること
        • 整理 = 意識的にすてること (meta-categorizationdevelop )
          • 分類されたものを、じっくり時間をかけて、検討する。関心、興味、価値観によって、ふるいにかける作業。
            • 価値のものさし
              • すてるには、その人間の個性による再吟味が必要 (3-1c1b0 You are what you consume (read); more precisely, you can shape yourself by deciding what should be consumed and kept for yourself)develop
                • 没個性的に知識を吸収するのに比べてはるかに厄介 (RUL3 - Ask at night how what you’ve learned that day fits into your web of ideas, and search for overlaps and contradictions. Most people do not do this.)
                  • 個性 ↔ 選定reflexivity
                    • 他人に整理をゆだねられないわけ
                    • 「本はたくさん読んで、ものは知っているが、ただ、それだけ、という人間ができるのは、自分の責任において、本当におもしろいものと、一時の興味との区分けをする労を惜しむからである。」
                      • 10-1a1b 行き詰らないとアブダクションできない