All roads leading to Rome does not imply sufficiency of transportation in general. At some point someone might propose, "I'd like to visit my family in Astana and would like a road so that I don’t have to take a camel from Casablanca", and then they'd look at the map and see that Pisa lacked a road to Rome. Pisa being closer to Rome, that road gets built instead.
-----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ?glen? Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 1:27 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute Heh, you're piling over-simplificatino on top of over-simplification. If all roads lead to Rome, people would find it trivially easy to "change lanes" and go to any other place in the world by that road that leads _from_ Rome. And it's the very exploitable nature of the more complex structures that make the entire solution space more accessible. A great example is the bundling of mortgages that caused the recent crash ... or the "gaming" of the market with fast algorithms. These things are made possible by the market. Sure, more edge cases will arise along with more medial cases. But you can't deny there are, overall, more cases. Hence, teams definitely do not limit autonomy. Whether individuals are deluded into myopia about the power of their agency or not is also a problem. I admit. The tyranny of choice is real, to which I respond: Better living through chemistry. 8^) We should be enhancing our cognitive abilities with the tools available to us... nootropics, cybernetic implants, more types and modes of education, etc. Such methods are present in effective teams. As for thriving on the fight, increased breadth in our behavioral repertoire necessarily implies that some people will focus on the fight... as well they should. Tort lawyers and MMA champions are valuable members of our team. Even patent trolls have a place on the team, if for no other reason than to find the sharp edges and help us sand them off. On 10/27/2016 12:11 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > If all roads lead to Rome, that's where people will end up. Of course, it is > very exploitable, and one can get very good at gaming such a system. The > agency one gains from doing so can give one the impression they are freer > than they were. But really a big part of it is thriving on the fight and > not the purpose or the outcome. -- ␦glen? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
