I also expend significant effort on unmarketable skills (snowboarding in my case) but I don’t expect anyone else to fund me for it. We live in a market economy, figure out your comparative advantage and negotiate the maximum price you can achieve for it.
Or, like, not. I totally realize that’s what I would do if I wanted to make money, but I don’t. At least for now, I only care about unmarketable skills. That’s why I have so many of them. It was a mistake to write this post in the first person; I’m sorry for being misleading. But I’m not actually looking for employment. I have employment opportunities already, and things to do besides.
Money is not only the unit of caring, it is the unit of exchange. It is not straightforward to trade money for time however (at least by the hour) so you are comprehensible. I’m sorry if I offended you.
Making money is not my comparative advantage. :) Really, though, I intern for SIAI, and when I’m not doing that I’m building skills so that I’ll be better able to work for SIAI, and when I’m not doing that I’m building skills that are related to intelligence amplification research. That is, at least for now, my comparative advantage: there’s no easy way for me to make enough money to pay someone else to do it better than I could. Volunteering at SIAI for a year gave me a lot of domain-specific knowledge.
I’m sorry if I offended you.
You didn’t offend me at all! Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound bristly.
Or, like, not. I totally realize that’s what I would do if I wanted to make money, but I don’t. At least for now, I only care about unmarketable skills. That’s why I have so many of them. It was a mistake to write this post in the first person; I’m sorry for being misleading. But I’m not actually looking for employment. I have employment opportunities already, and things to do besides.
Money is not only the unit of caring, it is the unit of exchange. It is not straightforward to trade money for time however (at least by the hour) so you are comprehensible. I’m sorry if I offended you.
Especially if you are in a country where that kind of thing is illegal.
Making money is not my comparative advantage. :) Really, though, I intern for SIAI, and when I’m not doing that I’m building skills so that I’ll be better able to work for SIAI, and when I’m not doing that I’m building skills that are related to intelligence amplification research. That is, at least for now, my comparative advantage: there’s no easy way for me to make enough money to pay someone else to do it better than I could. Volunteering at SIAI for a year gave me a lot of domain-specific knowledge.
You didn’t offend me at all! Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound bristly.