When we judge the whole concatenation as 'well coordinated,' we are implicitly imagining a mind able to behold the whole that we ourselves cannot, and we are negotiating an incomplete, aesthetic conversation about what that mind would find more satisfying or beautiful—not computing a well-defined maximum.

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Dan Klein

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what we do if only implicitly is imagine a mind able to behold it even though we cannot and we're having a kind of conversation about what that mind would find more satisfying or pleasing

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Dan Klein on Coordination and Cooperation 02/04/2008EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:36:53 AM

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