Broadly agree the failure mode is important; also I’m fairly confident basically all the listed mentors understand this problem of rationality education / “how to improve yourself” schools / etc. and I’d hope can help participants to avoid it.
I would subtly push back against optimizing for something like being measurably stronger on a timescale like 2 months. In my experience actually functional things in this space typically work by increasing the growth rate of [something hard to measure], so instead of e.g. 15% p.a. you get 80% p.a.
For example then, how would someone know this is a useful thing based on other signals? It’s totally valid to suggest using something else, but is there one? If not, you’re going to have a selection effect against people for whom that matters
Broadly agree the failure mode is important; also I’m fairly confident basically all the listed mentors understand this problem of rationality education / “how to improve yourself” schools / etc. and I’d hope can help participants to avoid it.
I would subtly push back against optimizing for something like being measurably stronger on a timescale like 2 months. In my experience actually functional things in this space typically work by increasing the growth rate of [something hard to measure], so instead of e.g. 15% p.a. you get 80% p.a.
For example then, how would someone know this is a useful thing based on other signals? It’s totally valid to suggest using something else, but is there one? If not, you’re going to have a selection effect against people for whom that matters