I am curious how good you think the conversation/facilitation was in the AI takeoff double crux between Oliver Habryka and Buck Shlegeris. I am looking for something like “the quality of facilitation at that event was X percentile among all the conversation facilitation I have done”.
[I wrote a much longer and more detailed comment, and then decided that I wanted to think more about it. In lieu of posting nothing, here’s a short version.]
I mean I did very little facilitation one way or the other at that event, so I think my counterfactual impact was pretty minimal.
In terms of my value added, I think that one was in the bottom 5th percentile?
In terms of how useful that tiny amount of facilitation was, maybe 15 to 20th percentile? (This is a little weird, because quantity and quality are related. More active facilitation has a quality span: active (read: a lot of) facilitation can be much more helpful when it is good and much more disruptive / annoying / harmful, when it is bad, compared to less active backstop facilitation,
Overall, the conversation served the goals of the participants and had a median outcome for that kind of conversation, which is maybe 30th percentile, but there is a long right tail of positive outcomes (and maybe I am messing up how to think about percentile scores with skewed distributions).
The outcome that occured (“had an interesting conversation, and had some new thoughts / clarifications”) is good but also far below the sort of outcome that I’m ussually aiming for (but often missing), of substantive, permanent (epistemic!) change to the way that one or both of the people orient on this topic.
I am curious how good you think the conversation/facilitation was in the AI takeoff double crux between Oliver Habryka and Buck Shlegeris. I am looking for something like “the quality of facilitation at that event was X percentile among all the conversation facilitation I have done”.
[I wrote a much longer and more detailed comment, and then decided that I wanted to think more about it. In lieu of posting nothing, here’s a short version.]
I mean I did very little facilitation one way or the other at that event, so I think my counterfactual impact was pretty minimal.
In terms of my value added, I think that one was in the bottom 5th percentile?
In terms of how useful that tiny amount of facilitation was, maybe 15 to 20th percentile? (This is a little weird, because quantity and quality are related. More active facilitation has a quality span: active (read: a lot of) facilitation can be much more helpful when it is good and much more disruptive / annoying / harmful, when it is bad, compared to less active backstop facilitation,
Overall, the conversation served the goals of the participants and had a median outcome for that kind of conversation, which is maybe 30th percentile, but there is a long right tail of positive outcomes (and maybe I am messing up how to think about percentile scores with skewed distributions).
The outcome that occured (“had an interesting conversation, and had some new thoughts / clarifications”) is good but also far below the sort of outcome that I’m ussually aiming for (but often missing), of substantive, permanent (epistemic!) change to the way that one or both of the people orient on this topic.
Looks like you dropped a sentence.
Fixed.