Gaia Soykok

Optics Level is tricky. if the culture signals if you do the optics well you are incentivised and not the rest, out of balance.

"Once one agent learns how to become more competitive by sacrificing a common value, all its competitors must also sacrifice that value or be outcompeted and replaced by the less scrupulous. Therefore, the system is likely to end up with everyone once again equally competitive, but the sacrificed value is gone forever. "

in most fields Leonardo was an autodidact, describing himself as "a man without learning", although saying his learning is from doing rather than texts.

not receiving a reward one had expected to receive is also indistinguishable from being punished.

Qutnatifed praises then become financial and reputation value for the individual.

Workers have varying self-worth and needs for extrinsic and intrinsic rewards.

Some polymaths are best known as intellectual brokers, Hartlib known as the intelligencer was a scholar of Bacon and Comenius and his work was to collect and diffuse the ideas and spread them in newsletters.