Recently William_S posted:

In my mental model, we're still in the mid-game, not yet in the end-game.

I replied:

A thing I've been thinking about lately is "what does it mean to shift from the early-to-mid-to-late game".

In strategy board games, there's an explicit shift from "early game, it's worth spending the effort to build a longterm engine. At some point, you want to start spending your resources on victory points." And a lens I'm thinking through is "how long does it keep making sense to invest in infrastructure, and what else might one do?"

I assume this is a pretty different lens than what you meant to be thinking about right now but I'm kinda curious for whatever-your-own model was of what it means to be in the mid vs late game.

He replied:

Like, in Chess you start off with a state where many pieces can't [...]

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First published:
June 21st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j2pKBBvyAxHPNbuS6/what-distinguishes-early-mid-and-end-games

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“What distinguishes ‘early’, ‘mid’ and ‘end’ games?” by Raemon

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