It still astonishes me just how much knowledge people want to share for no other reason than to share it? and maybe so that people know they were the ones who shared it. Everything anyone ever needs to know for any purpose is written down somewhere already. All the “secret” knowledge, the knowledge that is arcane and desirable, it’s all been written down already.
And it amazes me that people still don’t read it. It’s such a huge barrier. SlateStarCodex for me was a great example of this. The stuff he spoke about, schelling points, culture war, etc etc, a lot of this was like not stuff in common parlance. A few years later, after it’s filtered down from him to media publications, other authors, cultural zietgeist, now everyone knows. But there was a lot of alpha in the