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Now that I'm Executive Director I don't have much time to bang my head on hard (research) problems, though I did start doing that a while back.
This is a "merely" inspirational post, but I think there's room for that on LW. There isn't much new insight in A sense that more is possible, either, but I found it valuable.
That strikes me as an extremely wrong way to allocate human resources. Good executive directors can't be rarer than good FAI researchers.
I wouldn't say I'm a good FAI researcher. I'm just very quick at writing up the kind of "platform papers" that summarize the problem space, connect things to the existing literature, show other researchers what they can work on, explain the basic arguments. For example.
I imagine it is easier to motivate people to be FAI researchers than executive directors.
But wouldn't you prefer to have an executive director of foos with the technical expertise to be a foo himself, so he has a better understanding of the foos that he's executively directing?
Yes, but ceteris ain't paribus. If foo=software engineer, sure, make one of yours executive director, then throw a brick in the Bay Area and hire the one you knocked out.