Yes, I agree it’s a confused concept. But I think that same confused concept gets smuggled into conversations about “impact” quite often.
It’s also relevant for coordination: any time you can be the 100th person that joins a group of 100 that suddenly is able to save lots of lives, there first must have been 99 people who coordinated on the bet they’d be able to get you or someone like you. But how did they make that bet?
Yes, I agree it’s a confused concept. But I think that same confused concept gets smuggled into conversations about “impact” quite often.
It’s also relevant for coordination: any time you can be the 100th person that joins a group of 100 that suddenly is able to save lots of lives, there first must have been 99 people who coordinated on the bet they’d be able to get you or someone like you. But how did they make that bet?