Difference between revisions of "Missing gear vs secret sauce"

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I want to distinguish between the following two framings:
 
I want to distinguish between the following two framings:
  
* missing gear/[[one wrong number problem]]/understanding is discontinuous: "missing gear" doesn't imply that the last piece added is all that significant -- it just says that adding it caused a huge jump in capabilities.
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* missing gear/[[one wrong number problem]]/step function/understanding is discontinuous: "missing gear" doesn't imply that the last piece added is all that significant -- it just says that adding it caused a huge jump in capabilities.
 
* [[secret sauce for intelligence]]/small number of breakthroughs: "small number of breakthroughs" says that the last added piece must have been a significant piece (which is what a breakthrough is).
 
* [[secret sauce for intelligence]]/small number of breakthroughs: "small number of breakthroughs" says that the last added piece must have been a significant piece (which is what a breakthrough is).
  

Revision as of 18:52, 3 June 2020

I want to distinguish between the following two framings:

  • missing gear/one wrong number problem/step function/understanding is discontinuous: "missing gear" doesn't imply that the last piece added is all that significant -- it just says that adding it caused a huge jump in capabilities.
  • secret sauce for intelligence/small number of breakthroughs: "small number of breakthroughs" says that the last added piece must have been a significant piece (which is what a breakthrough is).

I'm not sure how different these two actually are. But when thinking about discontinuities, I've noticed that I am somewhat inconsistent about conflating these two and distinctly visualizing them.