I find that many of the topics she suggests as ‘schlep’ are actually very exciting and lots of fun to work on. This is plausible why we see so much open source effort in the space of LLM-hacking.
What would you think of as examples of schlep in other EA areas?
I think schlep blindness is everywhere in EA. I think the work activities of the average EA suspiciously align with activities nerds enjoy and very few roles strike me as antithetical. This makes me suspicious that a lot of EA activity is justified by motivated reasoning, as EAs are massive nerds.
It’d be very kind of an otherwise callous universe to make the most impactful activities things that we’d naturally enjoy to do.
Ajeya Cotra posted an essay on schlep in the context of AI 2 weeks ago:
https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/scale-schlep-and-systems/
I find that many of the topics she suggests as ‘schlep’ are actually very exciting and lots of fun to work on. This is plausible why we see so much open source effort in the space of LLM-hacking.
What would you think of as examples of schlep in other EA areas?
I think schlep blindness is everywhere in EA. I think the work activities of the average EA suspiciously align with activities nerds enjoy and very few roles strike me as antithetical. This makes me suspicious that a lot of EA activity is justified by motivated reasoning, as EAs are massive nerds.
It’d be very kind of an otherwise callous universe to make the most impactful activities things that we’d naturally enjoy to do.