Straussian read on Marc is that he no longer cares if the narratives he and A16Z put out are grounded, just if they seed a market for his portcos.

both. Eg retention and new user accounts for a social media app as a classic example

yes metrics can fail in other ways (e.g. McNamara fallacy where you don't value things that aren't measured)

Only said that the gaming of metrics Goodhart's rightly predicts largely mitigated by picking another metric that shows if you're gaming the first.

Knowing that I could turn down any side street and discover layers of human creativity: a cafe, a mural, people, an awning, and so much more

As @kasey.bsky.social put it: “going outside in NYC is like pulling a slot machine”

In tech parlance: like everyone would be running Linux just different distros

Trading blocks themselves have this — each country has its own tweaks and customizations, much as I assume the firewalls would.

So: suspect we agree

That’s not what this thread is about at all and why you are now blocked.

I suspect the boundaries will in effect be like trading blocks: groups of 1 or more countries with a shared set of values. Trading blocks are shared economic values, firewalls are informational values

Excited for this one. Had to preorder like the appropriately-grouped pleb that I am!

(Hits blunt) has the scientific method been around long enough to have embedded cultural wisdom?