This is totally relevant to EA because it’s another case of youthful hubris vs veteran experience. EA is a place an elite graduate can meet in a bar with some other cool kids and do a napkin pitch for their first charity with zero field experience and soon bring in a million and where a 43 year old veteran with 20 years in the field in his cause area is virtually ignored because he doesn’t have the youthful EA vibe.
FTX was all EA in the beginning including Aschenbrenner himself who must have still been using a practice razor when he worked there.
The point is EA needs to create a culture that draws in more experienced people who bring their common sense which is informed by real life experience not just classes they had in college. To do this requires thoughtful planning and execution, which should have happened post FTX and maybe this is a reminder. And it’s not just experience, there’s a host of human variety of perspectives that need to all be here so the table benefits from many viewpoints and ways of thinking.
One of the studies on where intelligent people go wrong is that they all follow each other to the same fail point, and they had nobody saying hey, there’s another possible point over here. They lacked perspective. It’s called “Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers,” which is just common sense to people who love collective intelligence. And love is actions.
I’m an 82-year-old collective intelligence pioneer, with my first book chapter, “Quest for Collective Intelligence,” published in 1995. Recently, my support offered to young CI “geniuses” was overlooked a couple of times because I didn’t have their youthful vibe. I understand that, as every new generation totally legit need to make their own mistake.
Hi George, thrilled to meet you. Yes, I wish I was as chill as you and what you say is true and also every generation shall try to save the next from repeating mistakes.
When I was only a boy I figured out that adults were really far smarter than me and sought to learn from them. Later I worked with the elderly for a while and learned it was a mixed bag, some were old and bitter obviously having made bad choices and failed to forgive. But others were clearly life experience geniuses and so you just had to be discerning in who you listened to. So probably because of this and my eventual passion for CI I just find the failure to seek the value of all perspectives as just leaving so much value on the table, to use a popular EA term. I’m going to DM you, can’t bypass a CI pioneer!
This is totally relevant to EA because it’s another case of youthful hubris vs veteran experience. EA is a place an elite graduate can meet in a bar with some other cool kids and do a napkin pitch for their first charity with zero field experience and soon bring in a million and where a 43 year old veteran with 20 years in the field in his cause area is virtually ignored because he doesn’t have the youthful EA vibe.
FTX was all EA in the beginning including Aschenbrenner himself who must have still been using a practice razor when he worked there.
The point is EA needs to create a culture that draws in more experienced people who bring their common sense which is informed by real life experience not just classes they had in college. To do this requires thoughtful planning and execution, which should have happened post FTX and maybe this is a reminder. And it’s not just experience, there’s a host of human variety of perspectives that need to all be here so the table benefits from many viewpoints and ways of thinking.
One of the studies on where intelligent people go wrong is that they all follow each other to the same fail point, and they had nobody saying hey, there’s another possible point over here. They lacked perspective. It’s called “Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers,” which is just common sense to people who love collective intelligence. And love is actions.
I’m an 82-year-old collective intelligence pioneer, with my first book chapter, “Quest for Collective Intelligence,” published in 1995. Recently, my support offered to young CI “geniuses” was overlooked a couple of times because I didn’t have their youthful vibe. I understand that, as every new generation totally legit need to make their own mistake.
Hi George, thrilled to meet you. Yes, I wish I was as chill as you and what you say is true and also every generation shall try to save the next from repeating mistakes.
When I was only a boy I figured out that adults were really far smarter than me and sought to learn from them. Later I worked with the elderly for a while and learned it was a mixed bag, some were old and bitter obviously having made bad choices and failed to forgive. But others were clearly life experience geniuses and so you just had to be discerning in who you listened to. So probably because of this and my eventual passion for CI I just find the failure to seek the value of all perspectives as just leaving so much value on the table, to use a popular EA term. I’m going to DM you, can’t bypass a CI pioneer!