alt Hacker NewsWhen Gwern needed a fellowship to come to SF he got one. When he had his “great idea” it was funded. The truly unique people out there find a way. Any government bureaucrat will just find the Jason Ardays of the world.
When Gwern needed a fellowship to come to SF he got one. When he had his “great idea” it was funded. The truly unique people out there find a way. Any government bureaucrat will just find the Jason Ardays of the world.
That's survivorship bias. If there are truly unique people who never get a chance to do what they would be good at, we don't hear about them.
Private sector bureaucrats are no different from government ones. The fundamental issue is that if you have a system, it's going to fail outliers. Almost by definition. And the situation is even worse if the system uses metrics for making decisions.