“Another mistake I hear with “marginal” is using it to refer to, not the best intervention for someone at the margin to do, but the absolute best action for anyone to do.”
This i really agree with. To add a little I think our individual competitive advantages stemming from our background, education and with history, as well as our passions and abilities are ofen heavily underrated when we talk generically about the best with we can do with our lives. I feel like our life situation can often make orders of magnitudes of differences as to our best life course on the margin, which obviously becomes more and more extreme as we get older.
I’m sure 80,000 hours and probably good help people understand this, but I do think it’s underemphasized at times.
“Another mistake I hear with “marginal” is using it to refer to, not the best intervention for someone at the margin to do, but the absolute best action for anyone to do.”
This i really agree with. To add a little I think our individual competitive advantages stemming from our background, education and with history, as well as our passions and abilities are ofen heavily underrated when we talk generically about the best with we can do with our lives. I feel like our life situation can often make orders of magnitudes of differences as to our best life course on the margin, which obviously becomes more and more extreme as we get older.
I’m sure 80,000 hours and probably good help people understand this, but I do think it’s underemphasized at times.