Yes, I explicitly remember Jeffryssai’s answer to the question of what Einstein & co. got wrong was that “They thought it was acceptable to take 50 years to develop the next big revolution” or something, and I recall my takeaway from that being “If you think it’s okay to doss around and just think about fun parts of physics, as opposed to trying to figure out the critical path to the next big insight and working hard on that, then you’ll fail to save humanity”. And the ‘if people just cared enough’ mistake is also one I held for a long time—it wasn’t until I met it’s strong form in EA that I realised that the problem isn’t that people don’t care enough.
Yes, I explicitly remember Jeffryssai’s answer to the question of what Einstein & co. got wrong was that “They thought it was acceptable to take 50 years to develop the next big revolution” or something, and I recall my takeaway from that being “If you think it’s okay to doss around and just think about fun parts of physics, as opposed to trying to figure out the critical path to the next big insight and working hard on that, then you’ll fail to save humanity”. And the ‘if people just cared enough’ mistake is also one I held for a long time—it wasn’t until I met it’s strong form in EA that I realised that the problem isn’t that people don’t care enough.