Milan Griffes comments on Will MacAskill on his ‘Eat That Elephant’ routine, learning from successful people, and the diminishing marginal returns of time spent working [blog cross-post]

[Milan Griffes]

In fact, I did do explicit modeling of costs and benefits, which made it look a lot more equivocal on whether it was worth the time. I’m glad I went with just going with what successful people do, because the modeling was shit. Looking back now, it totally got wrong where most of the benefit of Doing Good Better came from, and I think that’s systematically true.

Did Will say where most of the benefit from Doing Good Better came from? (Didn’t see it in the transcript)

[lynettebye]

Sadly, nope.