That’s really great! You posed my question better than I did, and answered it more detail than I was expecting. Thanks a lot. :)
RE: “my hope is that aiming for truly great futures, and just trying to improve incrementally on ‘default’ futures, recommend quite similar and compatible courses.”
For what it’s worth, it might be worth your time to check Gerald Gauss’ “The Tyranny of the Ideal”, particularly his framework around page 82, with what he calls “The Choice”: that sometimes we might face scenarios in which the local optimum is in the opposite direction from where the global optimum is. I discovered it recently and I thought it was pretty good for thinking about these kinds of issues.
That’s really great! You posed my question better than I did, and answered it more detail than I was expecting. Thanks a lot. :)
RE: “my hope is that aiming for truly great futures, and just trying to improve incrementally on ‘default’ futures, recommend quite similar and compatible courses.”
For what it’s worth, it might be worth your time to check Gerald Gauss’ “The Tyranny of the Ideal”, particularly his framework around page 82, with what he calls “The Choice”: that sometimes we might face scenarios in which the local optimum is in the opposite direction from where the global optimum is. I discovered it recently and I thought it was pretty good for thinking about these kinds of issues.