Suggestion: find ways for candidates to work closely with top tier people such that it doesn’t distract those people too much.
In particular, I currently think an apprenticeship-like model is the best starting point for experiments along these lines. Eli also recently pointed out to me that this lines up well with Bloom’s two-sigma problem: one-on-one tutoring works ~two standard deviations better than basically anything else in education.
In particular, I currently think an apprenticeship-like model is the best starting point for experiments along these lines. Eli also recently pointed out to me that this lines up well with Bloom’s two-sigma problem: one-on-one tutoring works ~two standard deviations better than basically anything else in education.