A RECENT CLARITY THAT I GAINED IS VIEWING AI RESEARCH AS A “MAX-PERFORMANCE DOMAIN”

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'Max-performance domains' are industries where people can be world-class by being very good at only one part of their job. It doesn't matter if you're incompetent at adjacent skills as long as you can create seminal impact. Exceptional ability at a single thing outweighs incompetence at other parts of the job. It is a luxury to work in a max-performance domain as failure is allowed and stress is usually self-imposed.