Expertise
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
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Vaden: Experts cannot reach highest earnings by repeating others' ideas
“You can't be someone, you're not going to be paid at the highest level if you're playing cover tunes. You know, like it's not wrong to play cover tunes. Like that can be fun, but don't expect to be the person that sells out arenas. If you're playing cover tune…”
Khosla: AI will eventually make almost all professional human expertise essentially free
“One of my big forecasts is almost all expertise will be free.”
Klein: Someone who cannot name past mistakes is not an expert
“If the person says, I can't think of any mistakes. To me, that means this person may be competent, but it certainly is not an expert. Experts are well aware of their mistakes and their mistakes eat at them until they can sort of imagine what I should have done…”
Klein: Historical performance and tenure do not reliably prove expertise
“I may be an investor and I have a track record of calling the market right in the last five times. And people say, wow, he really knows what he's talking about. But there are lots of people who are trying to predict which way the market is going to go. And som…”
Label Hacked: Expertise creates passion; chasing passion first is overrated
“Expertise really begets passion, not necessarily the other way around. So go for the expertise first. Passion is a bit overrated.”
Intuition should only be trusted in areas of deep accumulated expertise
“Because what correct intuition is, is all of this experience that we've accumulated in something that we don't necessarily have conscious access to the process of acquiring. And so your intuition should only be trusted if you're an expert in this area, if ther…”