I meant the former – someone who’s actually accomplished something is more likely to have rationality lessons that are actually useful. But I don’t think people should have an attititude of deferral – I just didn’t want to try to solve the current overbalance of AI by having a bunch of college students write up some untested armchair rationality.
I don’t know that I’d put the bar at “Paul Graham” – if you’ve done any kind of reasonably hard project and learned something along the way I think that’s good to share. I also don’t want to discourage anyone inexperienced who is naturally drawn to write up their rationality thoughts – I just didn’t want to go out of my way to especially encourage it.
I meant the former – someone who’s actually accomplished something is more likely to have rationality lessons that are actually useful. But I don’t think people should have an attititude of deferral – I just didn’t want to try to solve the current overbalance of AI by having a bunch of college students write up some untested armchair rationality.
I don’t know that I’d put the bar at “Paul Graham” – if you’ve done any kind of reasonably hard project and learned something along the way I think that’s good to share. I also don’t want to discourage anyone inexperienced who is naturally drawn to write up their rationality thoughts – I just didn’t want to go out of my way to especially encourage it.
I endorse this.