🧩 Philosophy Aug 7, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Easy To Hard Discipline Academic Careers Paths

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Tasks often vary along a dimension where some tasks matter more, yet are also harder to judge for quality of performance. This spectrum appears in org management, where it is harder to judge the quality of higher level more important decisions. It also appears in academia, where STEM tasks tend to be less important but easier to judge, compared to those in humanities.In management, the usual strategy is to first test people at lower level, less important, easier to judge tasks. Then as some folk

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