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Zina Sarif's avatar

“Play the game. Burn the clock.” is a beautiful conclusion.

I wonder how much game theory studies would impact / self-correct this distortion., and how much of end game play is just intellectual laziness.

Deacon Santiago's avatar

I see this extended everywhere. I talked to a climate scientist recently and their answer to everything was 'ban fossil fuel usage', and every question that I had about how was skipped over and taken straight to endgame. It really contributes to political and idealogical polarization, I think. The details and the feasible practicalities have a way of normalizing polar ideas to a realistic middle ground.

Managing Analyst's avatar

I want to run with this on ambitious ppls careers. To an extent, the middle is ignored by young founders / students because they believe their game will be like others’ games, and they can just trace their steps. Fortunately, not true at least in the founder case. You can probably bottleneck smash your way to a big tech job if you star early enough