When you optimize for the journey, especially *in order to* get good results, doesn't that in itself go against, at the very least Laozian wu wei?
I enjoyed reading slingerland, but Kenneth Stanley's Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective may be more palatable to the western-educated, STEM-y, more ambitious mind while preaching something similar.
TLDR, modest goals can be planned. great goals cannot be planned because the intermediate steps to get there look nothing like the end goal hence it's beyond typical human imagination no matter how smart.
Also, for the general topic of how hard to try, and how much to apply rationality and when, I prefer David Chapman's meaningness.com website over slingerland.
If you enjoy slingerland, i suspect Chapman's approach is the natural next step.
P.S.: might be a coincidence that both Chapman and Stanfield have training in the field of AI or maybe not.
> optimise for the journey
When you optimize for the journey, especially *in order to* get good results, doesn't that in itself go against, at the very least Laozian wu wei?
I enjoyed reading slingerland, but Kenneth Stanley's Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective may be more palatable to the western-educated, STEM-y, more ambitious mind while preaching something similar.
TLDR, modest goals can be planned. great goals cannot be planned because the intermediate steps to get there look nothing like the end goal hence it's beyond typical human imagination no matter how smart.
Also, for the general topic of how hard to try, and how much to apply rationality and when, I prefer David Chapman's meaningness.com website over slingerland.
If you enjoy slingerland, i suspect Chapman's approach is the natural next step.
P.S.: might be a coincidence that both Chapman and Stanfield have training in the field of AI or maybe not.