Optimise for Usefulness
In what ways do we contribute to the world?
Ivan posits an elegant framework to the above question that breaks down value into three components:
Ivan posits an elegant framework to the above question that breaks down value into three components:
- Our capabilities — these are the skills and knowledge that we possess. Can you build a fire? Calculate the trajectory of a rocket? Craft a website? Determine who stole the cookie among a group of kindergar
Julie Zhuo • When AI Has Better Taste Than You
what isn’t worth doing isn’t worth doing well.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Truly virtuous people who are genuinely trying to save lives, rather than trying to reveal virtue, will constantly seek to save more lives with less effort, which means that less of their virtue will be revealed. It may be confusing, but it’s not contradictory.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Skills are best gauged by what people can do, not what they say or what they’ve done before.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
In general, brilliant people study complex things in order to make life simpler for the average and the less-than-average and the infirm.