1. I agree my sentence “It sounds like you’re arguing that no other explanations are useful, because Rob Miles had a few videos in 2017 on the issue?” was quite overstated. I apologize for that.
That said, my guess is that I’m really not sure if presence of the Rob Miles videos did decrease the value of future work much. Maybe by something like 20%? I could also see situations where the response was positive, revealing that more work here would be more valuable, not less.
All that said, my guess is that this point isn’t particularly relevant, outside of what it shows of our arguing preferences and viewpoints. I think the original post would have a similar effect without it.
but I read the OP is simply expressing the concept “funds have an opportunity cost” (arguably in unnecessarily hyperbolic terms).
That’s relevant to know, thanks! This wasn’t my takeaway when reading it (I tend to assume that it’s clear that funds have opportunity costs, so focused more on the rest of the point), but I could have been wrong.
Thanks for the comment Sanjay!
I think your points are quite fair.
1. I agree my sentence “It sounds like you’re arguing that no other explanations are useful, because Rob Miles had a few videos in 2017 on the issue?” was quite overstated. I apologize for that.
That said, my guess is that I’m really not sure if presence of the Rob Miles videos did decrease the value of future work much. Maybe by something like 20%? I could also see situations where the response was positive, revealing that more work here would be more valuable, not less.
All that said, my guess is that this point isn’t particularly relevant, outside of what it shows of our arguing preferences and viewpoints. I think the original post would have a similar effect without it.
That’s relevant to know, thanks! This wasn’t my takeaway when reading it (I tend to assume that it’s clear that funds have opportunity costs, so focused more on the rest of the point), but I could have been wrong.