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Interesting! I'd appreciate any sources though.
Here's a nice example of the "contingency" of scientific success by Bol, de Vaan, and van de Rijt (2018). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1719557115 Grants are reviewed and ranked by a panel of experts. While they often agree in the broad strokes, their scores also have random or subjective components: different reviewers might prefer different approaches; even the same reviewer might give slightly different sc…
It's the Matthew effect multiplied by Goodhart's law.
> I agree with Dwarkesh that we should be doing more to help young people have miracle years Optimizing any system for "geniuses" seems very silly to me. > Look, no one talked about how we can engineer miracle years when miracle years were actually still happening. This modern obsession with progress is just a sign of our decadence, of our creative exhaustion and inability to innovate in any meaningful way. I'm readi…
I think there is merit to this argument, but right now most US public education actively restrains geniuses via excessive busywork and limited to no access to accelerated programs.
Many/most of our geniuses are lost in the web of mediocrity that currently expends a ridiculous amount of resources on bringing the lowest performers up to a higher level of low (and imho still inadequate) performance.
Some folks don’t want to be educated. For anything beyond basic reading, writing, math, and civics knowledge and skills, that should be ok.
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I actually disagree. It’s kind of a power law distribution thing where 1% of the people make 99% of the real scientific breakthroughs. We should absolutely optimize for geniuses.
Sounds like a good way to create even more cults of personality and egotistical assholes who can't work in a team. Breakthroughs aren't made by lone geniuses anymore. We just have that superhero fetish eg. picture of black hole where credit was practically given to that one woman in the picture.
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Good comedians don’t need to explain their jokes. Good jokes don’t need to be explained. Yet here we are.
The joke police are ruthless today. Just let me pay the fine, surely it's easier than having to convince people I don't actually think Einstein was an alien. Tesla? Actually an alien. (I'm kidding please stop).
I was basically accused of being a Russian agent on here once for using the word "Boomer" while referring to a model of car that only that generation would have remembered.
There's a smattering of extra crispy ESR-style hackers on here that occasionally trips over something you might not expect them to.
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The joke police are ruthless today. Just let me pay the fine, surely it's easier than having to convince people I don't actually think Einstein was an alien. Tesla? Actually an alien. (I'm kidding please stop).
I suspect these are people who think you're an actor for a nation state who accidentally let slip something s/he knows about Einstein being an alien. I was basically accused of being a Russian agent on here once for using the word "Boomer" while referring to a model of car that only that generation would have remembered. There's a smattering of extra crispy ESR-style hackers on here that occasionally trips over somet…
There is no weird conspiracy here, there was just someone acting in an uncivil manner who was called out on it and who then kept things going.
I was actually expecting the joke to fall back on the fact that he was indeed a completely legal alien. Because he was, and that is humor.
> Also, stop meditation and trying to optimize your mental and physical performance. Has anyone who’s ever had a miracle year cared about any of this shit? I’d say Lex Fridman is in his equivalent of a miracle year, or was last year anyway. Keeping the body tuned is important for mental ability which is important if you’re trying to be productive at all, much more to achieve a miracle year.
Lex presents as one of the biggest self absorbed pseudo-intellectuals of the 21st century. Perhaps a miracle year in being a joke of a philosopher I guess.
Here’s an HN rule you seem to have broken.
> Eschew flamebait.
There’s one I’ll be following.
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I notice that you have perverted the meaning by adding the word "ineffective" which was not in the statement you are replying to, though you imply it was and that teachers are. As if the only way a person can be overworked is by not being effective at their job. And thus it is the teacher's failing that they cannot keep up with the workload, not the people assigning the workload. It seems you have had a very rare and…
OP didn’t say it but an overarching theme in the comments here is that traditional public education is ineffective. So if teachers are overworked, they’ve got energy to expend but they’re expending it ineffectively. You took this a little far with the personal attack.
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From what I’ve heard from acquaintances who work(ed) as teachers, there’s a lot of of documentation of the students’ progress that takes a lot of time to enter but usually is write-only.
If it's known to be write-only, then only they are to blame for wasting time. They could literally write anything, or nothing, and nobody would ever know, right? Otherwise, it's not write-only.