I’d definitely like to hear more about this, Eliezer.
One good intellectual habit that I think I have over other people, and I think you have expressed this too, is that I don’t separate different aspects of my knowledge as much as other people in academia do. To most people I have met, mathematics, physics, AI, philosophy, psychology and romance are separate magesteria. To me, they are all part of a unified whole. When I am in a social situation and something unexpected happens [for example I misunderstand someone, someone upsets me, etc] my brain will start analyzing the event as an AI problem and an evo-psych problem. This is something I did before I found overcoming bias.
Concur. The most effective people I’ve known have combined a fair degree of intelligence and knowledge with a distinct integrative facility. Compartmentalization can at times be a useful tool for simplifying a problem, but in other cases, it can blind you to potential unconventional solutions.
I’d definitely like to hear more about this, Eliezer.
One good intellectual habit that I think I have over other people, and I think you have expressed this too, is that I don’t separate different aspects of my knowledge as much as other people in academia do. To most people I have met, mathematics, physics, AI, philosophy, psychology and romance are separate magesteria. To me, they are all part of a unified whole. When I am in a social situation and something unexpected happens [for example I misunderstand someone, someone upsets me, etc] my brain will start analyzing the event as an AI problem and an evo-psych problem. This is something I did before I found overcoming bias.
Concur. The most effective people I’ve known have combined a fair degree of intelligence and knowledge with a distinct integrative facility. Compartmentalization can at times be a useful tool for simplifying a problem, but in other cases, it can blind you to potential unconventional solutions.