A disproportionate number of people involved with AI risk mitigation and the Singularity Institute have graduated from “Elite Universities” such as Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, and so on and so fourth. How important are Elite Universities, besides from signalling status and intelligence? How important is signalling status by going to an elite University? Are they worth the investment?
A disproportionate number of people involved with AI risk mitigation and the Singularity Institute have graduated from “Elite Universities” such as Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, and so on and so fourth. How important are Elite Universities, besides from signalling status and intelligence? How important is signalling status by going to an elite University? Are they worth the investment?
A while back John_Maxwell linked me to this OB post and this post on halfsigma.