My thoughts when someone asked me what I think about this on IRC:
eh
probably a fine idea
I think a more cost effective plan would be to create a summary with links to lesswrong, introductions to probability theory, and maybe some stuff from GTD and how to make friends and influence people
and then email/heavily advertise it to high school chess clubs
like you said, a more generic thing can have a lot more impact per investment
so framing the value as being in the mentoring seems incorrect
I would expect very smart people exposed to the right ideas to come out about as well as very smart people who are exposed to and mentored in the right ideas
especially considering the very short term scale of your mentoring
My thoughts when someone asked me what I think about this on IRC:
eh
probably a fine idea
I think a more cost effective plan would be to create a summary with links to lesswrong, introductions to probability theory, and maybe some stuff from GTD and how to make friends and influence people
and then email/heavily advertise it to high school chess clubs
like you said, a more generic thing can have a lot more impact per investment
so framing the value as being in the mentoring seems incorrect
I would expect very smart people exposed to the right ideas to come out about as well as very smart people who are exposed to and mentored in the right ideas
especially considering the very short term scale of your mentoring
nothing like Aristotle