Bob: what do you think of my analysis of my mistakes. In general, I think that it is hugely desirable that someone fairly similar to me made roughly the mistakes that I made in terms of life path, but its unfortunate that I made them rather than someone somewhat less capable. In terms of other types of mistakes, I have made a few terrible ones but got reasonably lucky so there were no consequences of note.
Eliezer: one heuristic that could have given you roughly your behaviors if you formed it is “almost no-one invests adequately in information while still investing effort in action at all”. As a general idea, high level intellectual exploration should consume substantially more time than goal-directed action, but there are few social encouragements to behave in this manner so the only people who do so are essentially those who are addicted to such intellectual exploration and have no propensity or willingness to take action at all.
Bob: what do you think of my analysis of my mistakes. In general, I think that it is hugely desirable that someone fairly similar to me made roughly the mistakes that I made in terms of life path, but its unfortunate that I made them rather than someone somewhat less capable. In terms of other types of mistakes, I have made a few terrible ones but got reasonably lucky so there were no consequences of note.
Eliezer: one heuristic that could have given you roughly your behaviors if you formed it is “almost no-one invests adequately in information while still investing effort in action at all”. As a general idea, high level intellectual exploration should consume substantially more time than goal-directed action, but there are few social encouragements to behave in this manner so the only people who do so are essentially those who are addicted to such intellectual exploration and have no propensity or willingness to take action at all.