If they lie about things that are easy to verify, how much should we trust them about things that are difficult to verify?
Just in case it's not, we can easily out-visionary Paul Graham by tweeting:
Do you suppose ships will never swim faster than light?
But of course the true mastery is to get funding for that startup.
Ah, people are finally making preparations to fight the AI.
1Sadly, the expiration date has to be selected from a list of options, and the only one longer than "7 days" is "never expires". I do not want to create future tasks for myself (to revoke this explicitly).
I wish there was an option like "14 days" or "1 month", but there isn't.
(I just refreshed the link in the article, probably for the last time.)
It starts in school, where high performing students are Sorted into honors classes. Then, standardized tests, extracurriculars, and various status markers Sort everyone again to determine university admissions. Finally, elite university attendance opens the doors to prestigious careers in academics, politics, and business, and, once a person is hired, the Sort does its best to select among the Sorted for promotion.
Not my experience. Probably depends on country, but maybe my objections also apply to other countries.
In schools, "inclusion" is the buzzword, and having separate schools for gifted children is... legal, so far, but frowned upon. I wish we had more schools that separate children by intelligence and conscientiousness. Instead, they mostly separate them by how much money and connections their parents have.
Similarly "standardized tests and extracurriculars" is a strangely mixed bag. The former refers to students' actual skills, the latter refers to luck and/or ability to navigate arbitrary constraints.
Finally, elite universities admit great students... or those who will represent them at sport events.
In other words, we kinda get sorted all the time, but the criteria are inconsistent. Not sure if this is what the article tried to imply. I got an impression that it talks about a more consistent way of sorting.
They see the cool vacations their peers took on Snap and Instagram.
This seems like a self-inflicted misery that you can easily opt out from. I have no idea how other people spend their vacations.
Humans have a sleep/wake cycle, but we also seem to need (or at least, express a need for) a different kind of rest: a work/play cycle (work during the day and relax in the evening, work during weekdays and relax during weekends, take vacations every so often, that sort of thing). The notion of spontaneity here seems like a reasonably good model of the point of evenings, weekends, and vacations: doing things because they feel good, because they're alive for you in the moment, rather than making and completing to-do lists. (Of course, some people won't fit this model.)
Just like different people need different amounts of sleep, maybe the work/play balance also works differently for different people. I wonder whether "needs much more play than average people" is a good model for ADHD.
Thank you! I have some Christian friends, and your description generally matches what I observed.
Prayer is a powerful social/psychological technology that many atheists could benefit from.
if you don't have high standards for employees it might because you're misanthropic
That sounds to me like a needlessly complicated theory. Maybe the reason why they hire mediocre people is that exceptional people are rare and expensive?
Like, what's the alternative to "They hire middling engineers instead of holding out for 10x'ers"? If you interview people, and you find out that most of them suck, and then there are a few average guys, but no 10x'er... should you keep waiting? You would be missing opportunities, losing the momentum, and running out of money.
The 10x'ers are few, and they have other opportunities that pay better and provide better work-life balance. The author seems to take for granted that all 10x'ers must be trying to get a job at a startup, and it must the startup's fault to somehow push them away. I would assume that most of them already have a job.
For me, using the AI do handle low-level details allows me to focus on high-level concerns.
Maybe it's because my memory sucks, but I have already passed the moment where I could remember all the things I needed for my work decades ago. I keep making notes about everything.