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trench warfare problems blog post [e97b2714]

Tags: writing

  • most problems are trench warfare problems now

    • lots of fighting for little gain
    • long and laborous
    • leads to people consistently searching for new markets
    • leads to building of "career moats" and "the dip"
    • physicists elide this problem via being blinded by math
  • recongize when a problem is a trench warfare problem
  • low hanging fruit is gone

  • benefits of problems being in trench warfare

    • no beginner's path is new

      • well tread, any amount of info is out there
    • largely shifted to discoverability and learning to rank style problems