Petition to rename “noticing confusion” to “acting on confusion” or “acting to resolve confusion”. I find myself quite good at the former but bad at the latter—and I expect other rationalists are the same.
For example: I remember having the insight thought leading to lsusr’s post on how self-reference breaks the orthogonality thesis, but never pursued the line of questioning since it would require sitting down and questioning my beliefs with paper for a few minutes, which is inconvenient and would interrupt my coding.
Petition to rename “noticing confusion” to “acting on confusion” or “acting to resolve confusion”. I find myself quite good at the former but bad at the latter—and I expect other rationalists are the same.
For example: I remember having the insight thought leading to lsusr’s post on how self-reference breaks the orthogonality thesis, but never pursued the line of questioning since it would require sitting down and questioning my beliefs with paper for a few minutes, which is inconvenient and would interrupt my coding.