Comments on: The Costs of Secrecy http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/10/the-costs-of-secrecy.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/10/the-costs-of-secrecy.html/comment-page-1#comment-5139 Chris Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:41:48 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=2920#comment-5139 I read it. I am of two minds about it. Mind 1 says, "Wow. These tech guys really get it, and are taking yet another important step into layers 8 and 9 of the stack". Mind 2 says "A paper that discusses incentive structures impeding the emergence of cooperation, with its earliest citation being of a 1983 Hirshleifer paper? Grumble...". With their data, and the approach they use, these guys have an opportunity to move beyond the game-theoretic just-so stories that some of the B-school folks in the field like to tell (which are all theory and no data), and I hope their next paper does this. I felt this paper was a bit too data-centric, and didn't provide sufficient theoretical grounding. I suspect this reaction is as much due to my indoctrination @Chicago as it is to anything else, so apply the suitable discount rate. Massive agreement on the respect, BTW. I read it. I am of two minds about it. Mind 1 says, “Wow. These tech guys really get it, and are taking yet another important step into layers 8 and 9 of the stack”.
Mind 2 says “A paper that discusses incentive structures impeding the emergence of cooperation, with its earliest citation being of a 1983 Hirshleifer paper? Grumble…”.
With their data, and the approach they use, these guys have an opportunity to move beyond the game-theoretic just-so stories that some of the B-school folks in the field like to tell (which are all theory and no data), and I hope their next paper does this. I felt this paper was a bit too data-centric, and didn’t provide sufficient theoretical grounding. I suspect this reaction is as much due to my indoctrination @Chicago as it is to anything else, so apply the suitable discount rate.
Massive agreement on the respect, BTW.

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