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large numbers of people behave in a fundamentally different way than do small numbers.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
The Power Law of Distribution
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
These are all highly contestable statements.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
high-variance.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Inadequate Equilibria
The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
THE MONOPOLY QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
David Friedman points out that people only do things for other people for three reasons – love, money, or force. Love doesn’t scale, so the economy can only run on money or force. The force experiment has been run and found wanting. Let’s stick with money.