it keeps turning out that groups who call themselves The Smart Guys Who Are Very Cool And Also Smart are full of numbnuts! HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
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It's really not hard to learn how to renovate a kitchen! I have done it. Of course, you won't be able to learn how to do it all quickly or to a workman's standard, but I had my contractor show me how to cut drywall, how installing cabinets works, how installing stoves works, how to run basic electrical lines, and how to evaluate the load on an electrical panel. The reports my general contractor was delegating to were also all mostly working on less than 30 hours of instruction for the specific tasks involved here (though they had more experience and were much faster at things like cutting precisely).
now if you know habryka wrote this, you can picture exactly what this kitchen looks like and will know to look out for doors falling on your head
hmm, was groverhaus actually just an instance of convergent evolution among posters
did Grover do his own three-phase wiring, no it takes Bayes for that
This is why I only hang out with groups like "terrible shit" or "bunch of self-satisfied assholes". This has worked only to my advantage so far.
Tangent: I looked through that sequence. The premise is that once a month, Habryka writes a mini-essay that repackages some bland corporate insight (e.g. Pareto principle, "fail fast", etc.) as an internal document of Lightcone's core principles. Lightcone is a company of 7 people.
rationalism as cult incubator
NOTE: on looking again, I'm not sure if he asked a chatbot at the time (presumably the GPT 3.5-based ChatGPT) or if he's saying it would have gone better if he had asked a chatbot. Not that the second is one dot better, and may be worse.
The best executives are very strong generalists, and the best managers are chosen to be strong performers in the task that they are managing other people to do. Elon is widely known to be a strong engineer, as well as a strong designer, and spends much of his time arguing details of that kind of work with his reports. Mark Zuckerberg is known to do similarly.
LO fuckin' L
Guy can't even design a car without cameras and internet anymore after the original Tesla roadster
In my days, that was called micromanagement and was generally frowned upon.
Elon is widely known to be a strong engineer, as well as a strong designer
This is just so idiotic I don't know what made up world Habryka lives in. In between blowing up a launch pad, the numerous insane design and engineering choices of the cybertruck, all the animals slaughtered by neuralink, and the outages and technical problems of twitter, you might be tempted to hope that the idea of Elon Musk as a strong engineer or designer would be firmly relegated to the dustbins of early 2010 where out-of-the-loop people could manage to buy the image of his PR firms. I guess Musk-cultist and lesswrong have more overlap than I realized (I knew there was some, but I didn't realize it was that common).
a better engineer than Oliver
I'm not sure I even want to give Elon that much? Like the lesswrong website is less annoying than twitter!