Specifics are not coming to mind at the moment but:
iirc the CEO of Lumina Probiotic (the bacteria that’s supposed to stop cavities) said something similar on The Filan Cabinet (Daniel Filan is the AXRP guy, among other things). Something like “I was reading random biology articles with my girlfriend, as you do, and then saw this one about the doctor who originally made the bacteria, and was like ‘wait why isn’t this just sold everwhere’ and then was like ‘wait i have some of the necessary skills? it doesn’t even seem that hard?’”). Unless I fucked up application, I should have his bacteria in my teeth. I think that’s pretty impressive.
Feynmann once said “what one fool can learn, so can another”. I don’t know how much he was like, semiconsciously performatively playing it up to try to be more approachable or to get people to stop getting in their own way of learning by assuming they weren’t smart enough.
Knowing what I read I just… kinda expect my impression of having read others saying similar was due to me having read such reports from other similar examples of famous scientists or startup founders.
I recall hearing prominent YouTubers and LessWrongers and that one famous study on photography and ceramics classes that volume of output matters more, seemingly because you learn a lot from doing it a bunch with quick feedback loops, and also because you don’t really know what will just go viral for inexplicable reasons (at least until you get enough skill to play the game better, seemingly). This is semirelated, but I suspect that you have to mentally stop thinking that each creation must merit a Great Effort from you in order to be successful.
Specifics are not coming to mind at the moment but:
iirc the CEO of Lumina Probiotic (the bacteria that’s supposed to stop cavities) said something similar on The Filan Cabinet (Daniel Filan is the AXRP guy, among other things). Something like “I was reading random biology articles with my girlfriend, as you do, and then saw this one about the doctor who originally made the bacteria, and was like ‘wait why isn’t this just sold everwhere’ and then was like ‘wait i have some of the necessary skills? it doesn’t even seem that hard?’”). Unless I fucked up application, I should have his bacteria in my teeth. I think that’s pretty impressive.
Feynmann once said “what one fool can learn, so can another”. I don’t know how much he was like, semiconsciously performatively playing it up to try to be more approachable or to get people to stop getting in their own way of learning by assuming they weren’t smart enough.
Knowing what I read I just… kinda expect my impression of having read others saying similar was due to me having read such reports from other similar examples of famous scientists or startup founders.
I recall hearing prominent YouTubers and LessWrongers and that one famous study on photography and ceramics classes that volume of output matters more, seemingly because you learn a lot from doing it a bunch with quick feedback loops, and also because you don’t really know what will just go viral for inexplicable reasons (at least until you get enough skill to play the game better, seemingly). This is semirelated, but I suspect that you have to mentally stop thinking that each creation must merit a Great Effort from you in order to be successful.