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Experts Have It Easy
Something that’s painfully understudied is how experts are more efficient than novices while achieving better results. I say understudied and not unstudied, because it’s common knowledge that charging people for their time results in experts being paid less since they work faster, which is why experts charge more for their time.
A Novice will start out being woefully inefficient, putting in incredible amounts of effort and running through all number of mental hoops in order to maintain the growing pile of unmaintainable abstractions they’ve developed. Meanwhile, the world-class expert is happily skipping through the warm sunny parts of the maze, because they knew that the cave would eventually lead to a dead end. Thanks to Daniël Goosen, Paul Hoft von Hoesslin, Dr Lisa Kane, and Tegan Green, and the AI Safety Cape Town writing group chat for reviewing drafts of this essay.
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