Not really; rationalist jargon is often more memetically fit than academic jargon so it’s often hard for me to remember the original language even when I first learned something from non-rationalist sources. But there’s a sense in which the core idea (Nash equilibria may not be Pareto efficient) is ~trivial, even if meditating on it gets you something deep/surprising eventually.
I don’t really think of presenting this as Moloch as “reinventing the wheel,” more like seeing the same problem from a different angle, and hopefully a pedagogically better one.
Not really; rationalist jargon is often more memetically fit than academic jargon so it’s often hard for me to remember the original language even when I first learned something from non-rationalist sources. But there’s a sense in which the core idea (Nash equilibria may not be Pareto efficient) is ~trivial, even if meditating on it gets you something deep/surprising eventually.
I don’t really think of presenting this as Moloch as “reinventing the wheel,” more like seeing the same problem from a different angle, and hopefully a pedagogically better one.