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  1. Feb 2021
    1. A large part of a DARPA program manager’s job is focused network building and the Internet is one of the greatest network building tools of all time. However, DARPA doesn’t have a strong web presence and the idea that DARPA’s aversion to people with a web presence may be how they avoid asymmetric career risk suggests that there are good reasons for the low Internet utilization. However, the Polyplexus project, a DARPA effort to foster an idea-generating online community, suggests that DARPA may realize that it’s no longer at the pareto front of this tradeoff and that it might be able to more effectively use the Internet to execute on its model. The Internet could conceivably help PMs find people working on the edge of a space, foster communication between performers, and find gaps in the state of the art. What would a riff on the ARPA Model built to take advantage of the Internet look like?

      DARPA项目经理工作的很大一部分是网络建设,互联网是有史以来最伟大的网络建设工具之一。然而,DARPA并没有很强的网络存在感,DARPA对有网络存在感的人的厌恶可能是他们避免不对称职业风险的方式,这说明互联网利用率低是有充分的原因的。然而,Polyplexus项目是DARPA为培养一个产生想法的在线社区所做的努力,这表明DARPA可能意识到它不再处于这种权衡的帕累托前沿,它可能能够更有效地利用互联网来执行它的模型。可以想象,互联网可以帮助PM找到在空间边缘工作的人,促进执行者之间的沟通,并找到最先进技术的差距。为利用互联网而建立的ARPA模型的即兴重复是什么样子呢?