I think a question I have for ultra-high-functioning people is - if you really search your heart, and you really corroborate it with everyone you’ve known - how different are you? How special? Unique? I mean like, *really*. It’s a heavy question. Why isn’t everyone on your level?
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Replying to @visakanv
I think people heavily overestimate uniqueness and heavily underestimate plausible potential impact, not least because of how many of the default options will lead to severely compromising on impact.
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Replying to @patio11
So are you unique in your relatively-more-accurate estimations...?
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Replying to @visakanv
I've spent non-trivial effort on being basically impossible to substitute for in the market, and I think I am basically impossible to substitute for in the market for a variety of jobs, but I think ~10% of my high school could have accomplished approximately what I have.
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Too few organizations are searching for the answer to "What's the best plausible, repeatable pathway you can have to maximizing the lifetime output of someone who is undifferentiated but bright given, say, 3 years to do nothing other than maximize for output."
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Replying to @patio11
Right!!! I feel that. That in some ways I have, through my exploring and experimentation, ended up with opportunities that seem tailored just for me. And probably 10% of people could do it(?) but it seems like only a handful do? Maybe I’m missing something?
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Replying to @visakanv
Oh, this version of uniqueness I'll buy, for a non-trivial (but not as high as it should be) number of people. (Though, pace the general theme, I think a lot of folks who are 40% Visa-equivalent today could be 80% 12 weeks from now in at least a job-relevant way.)
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Replying to @patio11
Right! But then why isn’t it already happening? Almost feels like there’s an ominous Great Filter sometimes (in the Fermi Paradox sense)
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Now THAT would be a great essay topic.
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Yes PLEASE
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