Look around for places where something seems incompetently run, or hopelessly inept, and where some part of you thinks you can do better.
One question that comes to mind for me is how do you differentiate this situation from unilateral action on bad things? There’s a part of me that wants to uninformative like “oh yeah, just do the good type of unilateral action but not the bad type of unilateral action. Easy!”
But my guess is that reality isn’t quite as unforgiving, and there are probably at least some good heuristics to reduce the risk of bad unilateral actions. But if so, what are they?
One obvious heuristic is to not act on the thing without asking ppl first why they’ve left that gap, which is like, part of OP’s model here—feels like the case in the example OP lists with Devansh, if there was some bad unilateral, OP, with a better map, could have explained why.
Ime most times I’ve had the feeling “why tf isn’t anybody doing X?!” my first response is to run around asking people that question?
This seems like one heuristic of a few that we’d need to make this go safely by default
One question that comes to mind for me is how do you differentiate this situation from unilateral action on bad things? There’s a part of me that wants to uninformative like “oh yeah, just do the good type of unilateral action but not the bad type of unilateral action. Easy!”
But my guess is that reality isn’t quite as unforgiving, and there are probably at least some good heuristics to reduce the risk of bad unilateral actions. But if so, what are they?
One obvious heuristic is to not act on the thing without asking ppl first why they’ve left that gap, which is like, part of OP’s model here—feels like the case in the example OP lists with Devansh, if there was some bad unilateral, OP, with a better map, could have explained why.
Ime most times I’ve had the feeling “why tf isn’t anybody doing X?!” my first response is to run around asking people that question?
This seems like one heuristic of a few that we’d need to make this go safely by default