This post… may have actually had the single-largest effect size on “amount of time I spent thinking thoughts descending from it.”
The concept of “Aesthetic Doublecrux” shifted me into a paradigm I’ve been exploring ever since. I’ve had an “Aesthetic Doublecrux” post sitting unfinished for over a year – unfinished because I kept struggling to make the point I wanted with it. I eventually decided it was more important to first write up background thoughts on “general doublecrux”, and eventually on Noticing Frames.
I’m still quite uncertain about how to think about the relationship between aesthetics and explicit reasoning, but am fairly confident there’s something important in that space. I’d like to have a principled way to adjust the degree to which I find something disgusting, or beautiful, because those seem to drive a lot of my other thinking.
This post… may have actually had the single-largest effect size on “amount of time I spent thinking thoughts descending from it.”
The concept of “Aesthetic Doublecrux” shifted me into a paradigm I’ve been exploring ever since. I’ve had an “Aesthetic Doublecrux” post sitting unfinished for over a year – unfinished because I kept struggling to make the point I wanted with it. I eventually decided it was more important to first write up background thoughts on “general doublecrux”, and eventually on Noticing Frames.
I’m still quite uncertain about how to think about the relationship between aesthetics and explicit reasoning, but am fairly confident there’s something important in that space. I’d like to have a principled way to adjust the degree to which I find something disgusting, or beautiful, because those seem to drive a lot of my other thinking.