That said, I also think maybe our culture will be better if we celebrate doing naively good things over doing things that are externally high status.
This is a reasonable theory. But I think there are lots of naively good things that are broadly accessible to people in a way that “janitor at MIRI” isn’t, hence my critique.
(Not that this one Shortform post is doing anything wrong on its own — I just hear this kind of example used too often relative to examples like the ones I mentioned, including in this popular post, though the “sweep the floors at CEA” example was a bit less central there.)
This is a reasonable theory. But I think there are lots of naively good things that are broadly accessible to people in a way that “janitor at MIRI” isn’t, hence my critique.
(Not that this one Shortform post is doing anything wrong on its own — I just hear this kind of example used too often relative to examples like the ones I mentioned, including in this popular post, though the “sweep the floors at CEA” example was a bit less central there.)