the difficult balance between change and continuity

#theme #meta

• Examples:

  • In society, there's always competitions between those who want society to stay the same, and those who want society to change:
    • conservatives vs progressives
    • elders vs children
  • In our heads, we need to decide how much new information to take in, how much we're willing to update our beliefs

• What's interesting is that it seems like this is often solved via competition between the conservatives and the progressives.

  • The explicit competition in politics.
  • The push and pull between parents and children.
  • The competition between our "just do it" brain and our "gotta keep learning" brain.
  • motivates why is competition such a prevalent phenomenon
  • [?] how does competition effectively help trade off between change and continuity

• This is kind of related to exploration exploitation, although not completely: since well it's kind of unclear here what the objective function even is.