My immediate efforts are focused on roughly the top 0.1% of high school students measured by general intelligence. If I could I would focus on the top 0.01%.
I agree this should be described in the original post.
Is there another sense in which I should be more explicit about my goals?
Your goals could be something like improving personal relationships, allowing a better legal system to take over, or generating funding or talent for SIAI, which would require increasingly good rationalists.
If I had to guess, I’d guess that you’re going for the ‘other’ category because it includes all sorts of important things which add up/may dominate, and figure that top 0.1%-0.01% is about right.
That doesn’t sound like a bad answer at all, and I’m not sure how I’d change it. I’m just emphasizing the point that the choice matters a lot, and that extra thinking helps.
It’s the kind of thing I’d want to have a discussion about at the next LW meetup, and by the time I start actively teaching people I’d want to have thought about it enough that I can’t bring someone up to speed with my full reasoning in a minute or two.
My immediate efforts are focused on roughly the top 0.1% of high school students measured by general intelligence. If I could I would focus on the top 0.01%.
I agree this should be described in the original post.
Is there another sense in which I should be more explicit about my goals?
Your goals could be something like improving personal relationships, allowing a better legal system to take over, or generating funding or talent for SIAI, which would require increasingly good rationalists.
If I had to guess, I’d guess that you’re going for the ‘other’ category because it includes all sorts of important things which add up/may dominate, and figure that top 0.1%-0.01% is about right.
That doesn’t sound like a bad answer at all, and I’m not sure how I’d change it. I’m just emphasizing the point that the choice matters a lot, and that extra thinking helps.
It’s the kind of thing I’d want to have a discussion about at the next LW meetup, and by the time I start actively teaching people I’d want to have thought about it enough that I can’t bring someone up to speed with my full reasoning in a minute or two.