I predict you’re selling yourself short. Maybe my weaknesses and shortcomings are largely filtered out if you know me only through my writings, but the people I work with every week could list them for you. There is clearly a level (or 5) above my own.
Moreover, I’ve been studying rationality for years, and since April have had the benefit of working on rationality or x-risk full time.
It’s very hard to tell “what it is about me” that gives me the rationalist powers I do possess, but if I had to guess, the single biggest thing would be my deep desire to say oops whenever appropriate, which I suspect I got from having wasted 21 years of my life for failing to say oops about the supernatural. I don’t want to waste my time like that again.
I predict you’re selling yourself short. Maybe my weaknesses and shortcomings are largely filtered out if you know me only through my writings, but the people I work with every week could list them for you. There is clearly a level (or 5) above my own.
Moreover, I’ve been studying rationality for years, and since April have had the benefit of working on rationality or x-risk full time.
It’s very hard to tell “what it is about me” that gives me the rationalist powers I do possess, but if I had to guess, the single biggest thing would be my deep desire to say oops whenever appropriate, which I suspect I got from having wasted 21 years of my life for failing to say oops about the supernatural. I don’t want to waste my time like that again.
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