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extremely expensive appears in 25 chunks across 22 episodes, from 2023-10-02 to 2026-03-17.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 3/11/24 (2024-03-11), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with qualitative nuance, lowest common, and quantitative scale, while by chunk count it sits between duct tape and marginal cost; its yearly rank moved from #54 in 2023 to #46 in 2026.
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Range2023-10-02 to 2026-03-17Mean1.1 per episodePeak2 on 2024-03-11
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Decentralization + top-down coherence is extremely expensive.
Decentralization without top-down coherence is cheap!
A flood-fill of possibility.
Swarms of collective intelligence.
You can get eventual, emergent...
...ase and a one-shot answer with no recourse to generate another one, it could be extremely expensive.
The user had to:
Think to use the tool
Launch the tool
Give it enough context on their goal
Wait for the answer
Evaluate the answer
That's a lot of ...
...convincing other people in the org that your idea is good.
Convincing people is extremely expensive, and often doesn't work.
This is especially true when there's a cacophony of other people trying to convince people of other things, making it harder...
...s.
What if you could design a system that was the opposite?
Decentralization is extremely expensive and makes changes in protocols very hard; doing it too early freezes the system in place.
You want a system that is not just decentralize-able, but s...
...ially in dynamic environments, are brittle and can be big liabilities!
They are extremely expensive to create and change, and also they are based on whatever naive thing you thought in the past.
It's hard to incorporate new things you've learned sin...