Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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What's the Key Bottleneck?
I seem so typically, people in these different problem areas often have pretty strong intuitions about what's really the rate limiting step for them. Yet, t dontn comment all how people can try to figure out what is the ky bottle neckand in the problem that they're focused on. I think we do try to sketch some general rules of thumb in the hinpaccares article. And so one thingis, like, if a problem is a very new and niche area, then probably one of the top bottonis is just getting some kind of proof of concept That there's actually useful stuff to do in this area.
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