Well, there are a lot of things out there. Why did you promote these ones?
CFAR staff have done a decent amount of trawling through self help space, in particular people did investigation that turned up Focusing, Circling, and IFS. There have also been other things that people around here tried, and haven’t gone much further.
Granted, this is not a systematic investigation of the space of personal development stuff, but that seems less promising to me than people thinking about particular problems (often personal problems, or problems that they’ve observed in the rationality and EA communities) and investigating know solutions or attempted solutions that relate to those problems.
Well, there are a lot of things out there. Why did you promote these ones?
I don’t think these ones in particular, I listed these as some of the most popular ones.
Granted, this is not a systematic investigation of the space of personal development stuff, but that seems less promising to me than people thinking about particular problems (often personal problems, or problems that they’ve observed in the rationality and EA communities) and investigating know solutions or attempted solutions that relate to those problems.
I personally have gotten a lot out of a hybrid approach, where I find a problem, investigate the best relevant self-helpy solutions, then go down the rabbit hole of finding all the other things created by that person, and all of their sources, influences, and collaborators.
I suspect someone who’s job it is to do this could have a similar function as the “living library” role at MIRI (I’m not sure how exactly that worked for them though)
then go down the rabbit hole of finding all the other things created by that person, and all of their sources, influences, and collaborators.
Oh. Yeah. I think this is pretty good. When someone does something particularly good, I do try to follow up on all their stuff.
And, I do keep track of the histories of the various lineages and where people came from and what influenced them. It’s pretty interesting how many different things are descended from the same nodes.
But, you know, limited time. I don’t follow up on everything.
Well, there are a lot of things out there. Why did you promote these ones?
CFAR staff have done a decent amount of trawling through self help space, in particular people did investigation that turned up Focusing, Circling, and IFS. There have also been other things that people around here tried, and haven’t gone much further.
Granted, this is not a systematic investigation of the space of personal development stuff, but that seems less promising to me than people thinking about particular problems (often personal problems, or problems that they’ve observed in the rationality and EA communities) and investigating know solutions or attempted solutions that relate to those problems.
I don’t think these ones in particular, I listed these as some of the most popular ones.
I personally have gotten a lot out of a hybrid approach, where I find a problem, investigate the best relevant self-helpy solutions, then go down the rabbit hole of finding all the other things created by that person, and all of their sources, influences, and collaborators.
I suspect someone who’s job it is to do this could have a similar function as the “living library” role at MIRI (I’m not sure how exactly that worked for them though)
Oh. Yeah. I think this is pretty good. When someone does something particularly good, I do try to follow up on all their stuff.
And, I do keep track of the histories of the various lineages and where people came from and what influenced them. It’s pretty interesting how many different things are descended from the same nodes.
But, you know, limited time. I don’t follow up on everything.