“EA Core Skillset” by JP Addison🔸

This is a (late) Draft Amnesty Week draft I claim that there's a special thing about some EAs. It's really hard to describe this using a low number of bits, which should make me skeptical that it exists. I’ve here settled on describing the collection of skills that people with that thing have. I claim that this set of highly correlated traits predicts success in EA about as well as raw intelligence (or more), and is much more trainable. I won’t justify this, and instead, please accept this draft amnesty post gesturing at a thing. Epistemic status: I find this model useful, and make this claim with the part of me that buys into it, but I’m aware that it doesn’t land for many people I describe it, including those who I would describe as having this skillset. So take it as a model but not one with my full endorsement. [...] ---Outline:(01:04) The skills:(03:11) The EA Spark(03:25) Disclaimer--- First published: March 4th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mQefkforx9qMYzomd/ea-core-skillset --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.