Grade school didn’t assign me many group projects. In fact, I can only remember one. And on that one I think I tried cooperating for like 15 minutes or something and then told the other two kids, “Go away, I’ll handle this” because it was easier to just do all the work myself.
Sometimes our early life experiences really are that metaphorical.
And sometimes they aren’t. As a ‘grown up’ you outright founded (with assistance) an organisation to help you handle your new project as well as playing a pivotal role in forming a community around a relevant area of interest. Congratulations are in order for learning to transcend the “just do myself” instinct—at least for the big things, when it matters.
It seems to me that “selecting people with whom I can usefully cooperate” is different from “learning to cooperate with arbitrarily assigned people”. Do you think that captures the distinction between Eliezer’s grade school anecdote and his later successes, or is that not a meaningful difference?
It seems to me that “selecting people with whom I can usefully cooperate” is different from “learning to cooperate with arbitrarily assigned people”. Do you think that captures the distinction between Eliezer’s grade school anecdote and his later successes
It is certainly a significant factor. (Not the only one. Eliezer is also wiser as an adult than he was as a child.)
And sometimes they aren’t. As a ‘grown up’ you outright founded (with assistance) an organisation to help you handle your new project as well as playing a pivotal role in forming a community around a relevant area of interest. Congratulations are in order for learning to transcend the “just do myself” instinct—at least for the big things, when it matters.
It seems to me that “selecting people with whom I can usefully cooperate” is different from “learning to cooperate with arbitrarily assigned people”. Do you think that captures the distinction between Eliezer’s grade school anecdote and his later successes, or is that not a meaningful difference?
It is certainly a significant factor. (Not the only one. Eliezer is also wiser as an adult than he was as a child.)