Competent Elites - LessWrong

Followup to: The Level Above Mine • (Anyone who didn't like yesterday's post should probably avoid this one.) …

x Competent Elites — LessWrong Expertise (topic) Frontpage 148 Competent Elites by Eliezer Yudkowsky 27th Sep 2008 9 min read 113 148 Followup to : The Level Above Mine (Anyone who didn't like yesterday's post should probably avoid this one.) I remember what a shock it was to first meet Steve Jurvetson, of the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Steve Jurvetson talked fast and articulately, could follow long chains of reasoning, was familiar with a wide variety of technologies, and was happy to drag in analogies from outside sciences like biology—good ones, too. I once saw Eric Drexl

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