🧩 Philosophy Sep 29, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Innovation Without Feedback Is Drift

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Innovation Without Feedback Is Drift
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The ancient world respected tradition, and was wary of most kinds of change. In contrast, our modern world looks down on tradition, and celebrates most change as innovation. And this, alas, will be our downfall. Hopefully some civ after ours will learn this key lesson: you should only innovate as fast as you get feedback on the changes that you try.With most technology and business practices, we can see most of their key consequences pretty locally and pretty fast. So we can get a lot of data fa

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