I thought about this a lot when considering my work. I’m very far from the best Youtuber, and very far from the most knowledgeable person on AI Safety, but nobody else is trying to combine those things, so I’m probably the best AI Safety Youtuber.
The interaction with comparative advantage is interesting though. I can think of several people off the top of my head who are strictly better than me at both AI Safety and public speaking/communication, who I’m confident could, if they wanted to, do my job better than I can. But they don’t want to, because they’re busy doing other (probably more important) things. It’s not the case that a person on the pareto frontier eats up everything in their chunk of skill space—in practice people can only do a few things at a time. So even if you aren’t on the frontier, you’re ok as long as the ratio of problem density to ‘elbow room’ is good enough. You can be the best person in the world to tackle a particular problem, not because nobody else could do it better, but because everyone better is busy right now.
I thought about this a lot when considering my work. I’m very far from the best Youtuber, and very far from the most knowledgeable person on AI Safety, but nobody else is trying to combine those things, so I’m probably the best AI Safety Youtuber.
The interaction with comparative advantage is interesting though. I can think of several people off the top of my head who are strictly better than me at both AI Safety and public speaking/communication, who I’m confident could, if they wanted to, do my job better than I can. But they don’t want to, because they’re busy doing other (probably more important) things. It’s not the case that a person on the pareto frontier eats up everything in their chunk of skill space—in practice people can only do a few things at a time. So even if you aren’t on the frontier, you’re ok as long as the ratio of problem density to ‘elbow room’ is good enough. You can be the best person in the world to tackle a particular problem, not because nobody else could do it better, but because everyone better is busy right now.
OMG, its really Robert Miles!!