From my local community and also from what I see online about the wider community, it seems that we are generally bad at networking.
In most cases, if I need a professional, I don’t have good recommendations from fellow rationalists about where I should go.
A meta-problem might be that we are bad at thinking about trust. We are generally quite open to interacting with people without them having to put in a lot of work to demonstrate that they are trustworthy but on the other hand we often don’t know how to tell whether we should recommend one person to fellow rationalists.
From my local community and also from what I see online about the wider community, it seems that we are generally bad at networking.
In most cases, if I need a professional, I don’t have good recommendations from fellow rationalists about where I should go.
A meta-problem might be that we are bad at thinking about trust. We are generally quite open to interacting with people without them having to put in a lot of work to demonstrate that they are trustworthy but on the other hand we often don’t know how to tell whether we should recommend one person to fellow rationalists.