Do people really think of scale as a bottleneck? I take this article to mean “maybe scale isn’t really important to think about if you’re unlikely to ever reach that scale”.
Perhaps scale could be thought as the inverse of the diminishing returns rate (e.g., more scale = less diminishing returns = more ability to take funding). This seems useful to think about to me.
Maybe the argument should be that when thinking about scale, neglectedness, and tractability, we should put more emphasis on tractability and also think about the tractability of attracting funding / resources needed to meet the scale?
Perhaps scale could be thought as the inverse of the diminishing returns rate (e.g., more scale = less diminishing returns = more ability to take funding). This seems useful to think about to me.
Yes, this is why you need to consider the ratio of scale and neglectedness (for a fixed definition of the problem).
Do people really think of scale as a bottleneck? I take this article to mean “maybe scale isn’t really important to think about if you’re unlikely to ever reach that scale”.
Perhaps scale could be thought as the inverse of the diminishing returns rate (e.g., more scale = less diminishing returns = more ability to take funding). This seems useful to think about to me.
Maybe the argument should be that when thinking about scale, neglectedness, and tractability, we should put more emphasis on tractability and also think about the tractability of attracting funding / resources needed to meet the scale?
Yes, this is why you need to consider the ratio of scale and neglectedness (for a fixed definition of the problem).