Mostly, I think EAs are beating themselves up too much about FTX; but separately among the few problems that I think EA actually does have, is producing really lengthy writeups of things, that don’t simplify well and don’t come with tldrs, a la the incentives in the academic paper factory; and that life wisdom that produces distrust of complicated things that don’t simplify well, is produced in part by watching complicated things like FTX implode, and drawing a lesson of (bounded defeasible) complexity-distrust from that.
Mostly, I think EAs are beating themselves up too much about FTX; but separately among the few problems that I think EA actually does have, is producing really lengthy writeups of things, that don’t simplify well and don’t come with tldrs, a la the incentives in the academic paper factory; and that life wisdom that produces distrust of complicated things that don’t simplify well, is produced in part by watching complicated things like FTX implode, and drawing a lesson of (bounded defeasible) complexity-distrust from that.
This seems like a good summary of what you’re saying.
That just says SBF doesn’t like to read books and then it calls him an idiot for that?