Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious.
If a field needs a Nobel to feel legitimate, the work has probably stopped being interesting. Aim for admiration, not applause.
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Get Linkwise — free on iPhoneScientists and philosophers have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be.
Seth's quiet move: the 'hard problem' is itself the problem. Apply Kelvin's principle — measure something — and the mystery becomes a thermometer problem.
The EA mindset is often technocratic. The progress community tends to be much more Hayekian: let lots of people try things and see what works.
Two tribes that both worship technology can't agree on whether it's steered by experts or by markets. That tension is more useful than the consensus it blocks.
