I think at some point in time a few years ago there seemed to be an implicit assumption on LessWrong that of course you can hack your determination, rewire your networking ability and bootstrap your performance at anything! And I don't think people so much stopped believing that this was true in principle, but rather people started realizing how incredibly difficult and time consuming it is to change your base skillset.
Well, there's also the possibility that people who did successfully hack their determination, networking ability, and performance are now mostly not spending time on LW.
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