Why Effort Scales Superlinearly with the Perceived Quality of Creative Work
12 days ago
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- Creative work involves fractal exploration and exploitation under optimal feedback control.
- Higher resolution in creative work reduces the acceptance volume, making precision edits more demanding.
- Effort scales superlinearly with perceived quality due to the increasing difficulty of making improvements.
- Different creative domains have varying levels of tolerance for edits and feedback latency.
- Craft involves closing increasingly subtle gaps in quality, requiring more effort over time.