In some cases it is useful for these people and orgs to consider “how can we level up our abilities and accomplishments, and moderate our claims?”
I agree this is an important message for some people and circumstances. For instance, it would probably have been a good message for me when I started doing research on longtermist strategy (from an s-risk perspective) in 2014-2017. I mostly pushed through impostor syndrome because there weren’t many other people doing similar things, so it felt like “I know it’s bad but, looking around, it may just be good enough to be useful.” In hindsight, I think the feeling was telling me that I should have focused less on searching for conclusions (by “winging it”) and more on improving my understanding and skill building. (That said, “searching for conclusions” is a crucial habit and people should be trying it with some amount of their attention from the very start, otherwise it’s difficult to acquire it later.)
I really like those points!
I agree this is an important message for some people and circumstances. For instance, it would probably have been a good message for me when I started doing research on longtermist strategy (from an s-risk perspective) in 2014-2017. I mostly pushed through impostor syndrome because there weren’t many other people doing similar things, so it felt like “I know it’s bad but, looking around, it may just be good enough to be useful.” In hindsight, I think the feeling was telling me that I should have focused less on searching for conclusions (by “winging it”) and more on improving my understanding and skill building. (That said, “searching for conclusions” is a crucial habit and people should be trying it with some amount of their attention from the very start, otherwise it’s difficult to acquire it later.)