For each path you can imagine a set of events (e.g. research break-throughs) that are necessary and sufficient to solve the end-goal. Here I’m unsure but my intuition tells me that the marginal impact would often be greater working on the necessary parts that are the hardest as these are the ones that are least likely to be solved without intervention.
This is exactly right, and those are the things which I would call Hamming Problems or the Hard Parts.
I suppose I would just like to see more people start at an earlier level and from that vantage point you might actually want to switch to a path with easier parts.
This is exactly right, and those are the things which I would call Hamming Problems or the Hard Parts.
I suppose I would just like to see more people start at an earlier level and from that vantage point you might actually want to switch to a path with easier parts.