Yeah but that doesn’t really change the general argument made by sanyer here. I do have some networks, trivial skills and credentials, but I could also be an incompetent noob who’s like a chimp with a hammer thinking they’re fixing things.
I guess the crucial difference here is that I do my best to a) learn from other people, b) go for short feedback loops rather than shooting off my own high-cost, high-risk tangents, and c) elicit, actually listen to, and carefully assess feedback from various directions. All this while examining in detail the underlying assumptions behind people’s reasoning which have nothing to do with experiences/credentials.
Identifying as an impostor has really been beneficial here I guess. I’d rather be safe than sorry, and assume I don’t know the stuff others do, until I have good reason to believe they’re just as confused as I am.
I’m also counting on people with reasonable world models to tell me if they think I’m doing something net negative, but until they do, I’ll assume I can just do things.
Yeah but that doesn’t really change the general argument made by sanyer here. I do have some networks, trivial skills and credentials, but I could also be an incompetent noob who’s like a chimp with a hammer thinking they’re fixing things.
I guess the crucial difference here is that I do my best to a) learn from other people, b) go for short feedback loops rather than shooting off my own high-cost, high-risk tangents, and c) elicit, actually listen to, and carefully assess feedback from various directions. All this while examining in detail the underlying assumptions behind people’s reasoning which have nothing to do with experiences/credentials.
Identifying as an impostor has really been beneficial here I guess. I’d rather be safe than sorry, and assume I don’t know the stuff others do, until I have good reason to believe they’re just as confused as I am.
I’m also counting on people with reasonable world models to tell me if they think I’m doing something net negative, but until they do, I’ll assume I can just do things.