That advice is ironic, considering that Eliezer started writing HPMOR while procrastinating on his save-the-world rationality book.
Reality doesn’t grade you. Only you can grade yourself. Or you can do what you like and screw the grades :-)
That analysis of Eliezer is false. He found a low-spoons activity that had a good shot of being high impact. I believe he continued to (and continues to) spend all of his actual spoons on his mainline saving the world plan.
That advice is ironic, considering that Eliezer started writing HPMOR while procrastinating on his save-the-world rationality book.
Reality doesn’t grade you. Only you can grade yourself. Or you can do what you like and screw the grades :-)
That analysis of Eliezer is false. He found a low-spoons activity that had a good shot of being high impact. I believe he continued to (and continues to) spend all of his actual spoons on his mainline saving the world plan.