I think part of the thing is that, although there are some clearly defined skills and levels and whatnot, we’re still very much in the process of learning a) what skills are most important, b) how to teach them (in some cases, how to teach them at all)
There’s certain things Eliezer is good at, and some very different things that, say, Nate Soares is good at that Eliezer self-identifies as not-very-good-at, and different-still things that Luke Mulhauser is good at, and a host of other people, each good at different things that seem clearly part of the rationality canon but which go off in different directions. The concept of “Belt” feels too linear to encapsulate them.
My sense is that CFAR represents the body-of-knowledge of “what we have some sense of how to teach” to arbitrary people, which (I don’t think?) yet includes much of the higher-level stuff.
I think part of the thing is that, although there are some clearly defined skills and levels and whatnot, we’re still very much in the process of learning a) what skills are most important, b) how to teach them (in some cases, how to teach them at all)
There’s certain things Eliezer is good at, and some very different things that, say, Nate Soares is good at that Eliezer self-identifies as not-very-good-at, and different-still things that Luke Mulhauser is good at, and a host of other people, each good at different things that seem clearly part of the rationality canon but which go off in different directions. The concept of “Belt” feels too linear to encapsulate them.
My sense is that CFAR represents the body-of-knowledge of “what we have some sense of how to teach” to arbitrary people, which (I don’t think?) yet includes much of the higher-level stuff.