Do you think there’s really nowhere to go from here? I’ve been lurking here for a year now and read a ton of great stuff. But even though the people I’ve met sharing this space are great, there’s a severe lack of ambition around that could actually stress test everything developed and discussed on here.
Some versions of “ambition” are evil (e.g. wanting to commit fraud), some are dysfunctional (e.g. wanting to be a hedge fund manager or CEO of ECorp), and some are worthwhile but have been severely damaged. Your mission isn’t to get into the inner ring https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/ , it’s to understand why the worthwhile ambition has been damaged (see https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KktH8Q94eK3xZABNy/hope-and-false-hope ), and then create contexts where that sort of thing can grow.
I think this place, LessWrong, is what you are looking for: Rationality is Systematized Winning
Do you think there’s really nowhere to go from here? I’ve been lurking here for a year now and read a ton of great stuff. But even though the people I’ve met sharing this space are great, there’s a severe lack of ambition around that could actually stress test everything developed and discussed on here.
Some versions of “ambition” are evil (e.g. wanting to commit fraud), some are dysfunctional (e.g. wanting to be a hedge fund manager or CEO of ECorp), and some are worthwhile but have been severely damaged. Your mission isn’t to get into the inner ring https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/ , it’s to understand why the worthwhile ambition has been damaged (see https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KktH8Q94eK3xZABNy/hope-and-false-hope ), and then create contexts where that sort of thing can grow.