I am quite excited for LessWrong to have more exercises in general, and I’m excited for people pushing forward the art of rationality by developing exercises to teach core skills.
I always quite appreciate Logan’s approach to giving very phenomenological descriptions of how to go about skills, breaking them down into small pieces that show all the teeny nuances of what might be going on in your mind.
I have not yet tried to learn the skill in this post – I haven;’t yet had time to set aside for reading it properly and applying it to things relevant to me (ideally I’d like curated posts to pass a bar like that. But in practice, the curation team is often busy and has to curate things we haven’t fully vetted). But, I am fairly confident based on past experience with Logan’s writing that even if this particular technique doesn’t work for me, if I were to practice it I would learn things about how to think about gaining new cognitive skills.
Thanks Raemon! Those are some very nice things you said about me blushes. I hope this post doesn’t disappoint.
Most of my previous writing has been pretty “here’s a bunch of thoughts and experiences I had in no particular order, which I’m telling you about so I can digest them better myself”. The series I’m working on right now is a lot more “I’ve put a lot of actual work into building a coherent curriculum and I’m writing this for other people rather than just for myself”. (Most of it is a more mature version of the noticing stuff you’ve been trying to get me to post here for ages.) So if you (or anyone else on the LW team) ever do get around to engaging with the strategy directly, I’d love to hear how it goes, and I’d especially love to hear what you wish had been different about my presentation of it. I know how to write for people who specifically subscribe to my personal blogs, but I… really do not know how to write for LW.
Curated.
I am quite excited for LessWrong to have more exercises in general, and I’m excited for people pushing forward the art of rationality by developing exercises to teach core skills.
I always quite appreciate Logan’s approach to giving very phenomenological descriptions of how to go about skills, breaking them down into small pieces that show all the teeny nuances of what might be going on in your mind.
I have not yet tried to learn the skill in this post – I haven;’t yet had time to set aside for reading it properly and applying it to things relevant to me (ideally I’d like curated posts to pass a bar like that. But in practice, the curation team is often busy and has to curate things we haven’t fully vetted). But, I am fairly confident based on past experience with Logan’s writing that even if this particular technique doesn’t work for me, if I were to practice it I would learn things about how to think about gaining new cognitive skills.
Thanks Raemon! Those are some very nice things you said about me blushes. I hope this post doesn’t disappoint.
Most of my previous writing has been pretty “here’s a bunch of thoughts and experiences I had in no particular order, which I’m telling you about so I can digest them better myself”. The series I’m working on right now is a lot more “I’ve put a lot of actual work into building a coherent curriculum and I’m writing this for other people rather than just for myself”. (Most of it is a more mature version of the noticing stuff you’ve been trying to get me to post here for ages.) So if you (or anyone else on the LW team) ever do get around to engaging with the strategy directly, I’d love to hear how it goes, and I’d especially love to hear what you wish had been different about my presentation of it. I know how to write for people who specifically subscribe to my personal blogs, but I… really do not know how to write for LW.