I wish you distinguished between elitist, smart, and well-paying. “Overvaluing pretigious universities and ignoring fantastic people because they went to a state school” is a very different problem than “pays too much (including to state school employees)”
Perhaps I could have done a better job at that. The way I see it, EA places a high premium on getting the “best of the best”, even when it means getting substantially fewer people on board. This premium often comes in the form of high pay.
Smartness is not central to my question. Although, separately, I am perplexed by some things which seem to indicate a belief that people lie along a “general awesomeness” continuum, on which the best people are in a class of their own. $50k scholarships for high-schoolers, for example, indicate to me a very strong faith that the 99th percentile in high school are a lot more valuable than the 98th percentile.
I wish you distinguished between elitist, smart, and well-paying. “Overvaluing pretigious universities and ignoring fantastic people because they went to a state school” is a very different problem than “pays too much (including to state school employees)”
Perhaps I could have done a better job at that. The way I see it, EA places a high premium on getting the “best of the best”, even when it means getting substantially fewer people on board. This premium often comes in the form of high pay.
Smartness is not central to my question. Although, separately, I am perplexed by some things which seem to indicate a belief that people lie along a “general awesomeness” continuum, on which the best people are in a class of their own. $50k scholarships for high-schoolers, for example, indicate to me a very strong faith that the 99th percentile in high school are a lot more valuable than the 98th percentile.