Vervaeke & (Green)Hall: Bullshit & Simulated Thinking
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The Tanger Curve: A Study of Insight Problem Solving
Tanger's work is anthropological so he takes a look at it the book, the big book, the main book is the collapse of complex societies. So one has to do with a series of what are now pretty well understood s curves that are associated with what happens when you're engaging in innovation. Innovation has a characteristic of exploring for a while with little upside until it hits some set of structures that seem to work and then it exploits those structures. And then you can have tapped out everything that you can. You get the same curve in psychology when you're studying insight problem solving.
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