This suggest to me that it’s a good idea to power boost people who are in the upper echelons of competence in any given domain, but to be careful to not power boost them enough that they exit the domain they are currently in and try to play in a new larger one where they are of more average competence. Sort of an anti peter principle. At least if the domain is important. For unimportant domains you probably do want to skim the competent people out and get them playing in a more important domain.
Sure, though people trying to do good work who aren’t already trying to collapse everything into a single metric will sometimes just tell you how much power they think they can productively use (and how much power they can productively redistribute).
This suggest to me that it’s a good idea to power boost people who are in the upper echelons of competence in any given domain, but to be careful to not power boost them enough that they exit the domain they are currently in and try to play in a new larger one where they are of more average competence. Sort of an anti peter principle. At least if the domain is important. For unimportant domains you probably do want to skim the competent people out and get them playing in a more important domain.
Sure, though people trying to do good work who aren’t already trying to collapse everything into a single metric will sometimes just tell you how much power they think they can productively use (and how much power they can productively redistribute).