[FRIAM] academia as a market of ideas

[jon zingale]

"there must be some asymmetry in valuation to *drive the engine*."

Perhaps, but must such a valuation be scalar-valued, orderable, or even
comparable? The exchange of things seems sorting-algorithm-like but overall
more shuffling-algorithm-like. For all of our differences, placing all of
our goods outside our houses and permuting *like* things would effectively
lead to no change.



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