Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People

1. Violation of any equilibrium-of-worthlessness condition creates expectations of value.


2. Expectations lead to score-keeping. Freedom-to-keep-playing is replaced by freedom-to-win.


3. Score-keeping and freedom-to-win leads to privileging of some behaviors as as more worth-while (notice the time-value connotations of the term).


4. Privileged behaviors — capabil

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If this crash-like process is inevitable, recovery is not. If you happen to become aware of a parrot in time, like the piece of corn noticed by the author of the depression story, you can regain the ability to keep playing.

But if you crash into a finite game and fail to see a parrot for long enough, you can lose the will to keep playing entirely. W... See more