Thanks to Elizabeth for hosting me! I really enjoyed this conversation; “winning” is a concept that seems important and undervalued among rationalists, and I’m glad to have had the time to throw ideas around here.
I do feel like this podcast focused a bit more on some of the weirder or more controversial choices I made, which is totally fine; but if I were properly stating the case for “what is important about winning” from scratch, I’d instead pull examples like how YCombinator won, or how EA has been winning relative to rationality in recruiting smart young folks. AppliedDivinityStudies’s “where are all the successful rationalists” is also great.
“Winning” is underpractied certainly, but undervalued!? I find that a bit hard to believe. (Currently reading the transcript, will change opinion if winning means differently than what Eliezer oft mentions)
Thanks to Elizabeth for hosting me! I really enjoyed this conversation; “winning” is a concept that seems important and undervalued among rationalists, and I’m glad to have had the time to throw ideas around here.
I do feel like this podcast focused a bit more on some of the weirder or more controversial choices I made, which is totally fine; but if I were properly stating the case for “what is important about winning” from scratch, I’d instead pull examples like how YCombinator won, or how EA has been winning relative to rationality in recruiting smart young folks. AppliedDivinityStudies’s “where are all the successful rationalists” is also great.
Very happy to answer questions ofc!
“Winning” is underpractied certainly, but undervalued!? I find that a bit hard to believe. (Currently reading the transcript, will change opinion if winning means differently than what Eliezer oft mentions)
> Rationality is Systematized Winning by Eliezer Yudkowsky
I would love to hear more about yc (and especially how you think it changed over time)