I’m not claiming you can literally do this all the time. [Ah, an earlier draft of the previous comment emphasized this this was all “things worth pushing for on the margin”, and explicitly not something you were supposed to sacrifice all other priorities for. I think I then rewrote the post and forgot to emphasize that clarification]
I’ll try to write up better instructions/explanations later, but to give a rough idea of the amount of work I’m talking about. I’m saying “spend a bit more time than you normally do in ‘doublecrux mode’”. [This can be, like, an extra half hour sometimes when having a particular difficult conversation].
When someone seems obviously wrong, or you seem obviously right, ask yourself “what are cruxes are most loadbearing”, and then:
Be mindful as you do it, to notice what mental motions you’re actually performing that help. Basically, do Tuning Your Cognitive Strategies to the double crux process, to improve your feedback loop.
When you’re done, cache the results. Maybe by writing it down, or maybe just sort of thinking harder about it so you remember it a better.
The point is not to have fully mapped out cruxes of all your beliefs. The point is that you generally have practiced the skill of noticing what the most important cruxes are, so that a) you can do it easily, and b) you keep the results computed for later.
I’m not claiming you can literally do this all the time. [Ah, an earlier draft of the previous comment emphasized this this was all “things worth pushing for on the margin”, and explicitly not something you were supposed to sacrifice all other priorities for. I think I then rewrote the post and forgot to emphasize that clarification]
I’ll try to write up better instructions/explanations later, but to give a rough idea of the amount of work I’m talking about. I’m saying “spend a bit more time than you normally do in ‘doublecrux mode’”. [This can be, like, an extra half hour sometimes when having a particular difficult conversation].
When someone seems obviously wrong, or you seem obviously right, ask yourself “what are cruxes are most loadbearing”, and then:
Be mindful as you do it, to notice what mental motions you’re actually performing that help. Basically, do Tuning Your Cognitive Strategies to the double crux process, to improve your feedback loop.
When you’re done, cache the results. Maybe by writing it down, or maybe just sort of thinking harder about it so you remember it a better.
The point is not to have fully mapped out cruxes of all your beliefs. The point is that you generally have practiced the skill of noticing what the most important cruxes are, so that a) you can do it easily, and b) you keep the results computed for later.