Learning a lot more about the diversity of opinions and concerns among Less Wrongers.
1) Learning that there are a lot more risk-averse people on LW who are opposed to experimenting with new things, learning from experience, improving going forward, and optimizing the world, than I had previously thought.
2) Learned a lot about Less Wrongers’ “ew” experiences and flinching away from [modern marketing], despite some getting it
3) Learned that many Less Wrongers are strongly oriented toward perfectionism and bulletproof arguments at the expense of clarity and bridging inference gaps.
4) Surprised to see positive updates on my character (1, 2)as the result of this discussion, and will pay more attention to issues of character in the future—I think I paid too much attention to content previously and insufficient attention to character.
Updated toward some different strategies with Intentional Insights
1) Orienting Intentional Insights content more toward providing breadcrumbs of links toward more higher-quality materials than the people on Lifehack and The Huffington Post are currently reading
3) Taking more concrete steps to minimize the risk of Endless September and tainting the term “rationality” by decreasing mentions of Less Wrong and rationality in our content.
4) Being more clear and specific in communicating scientific thinking to our audiences.
7) Updating more toward taking well-considered action despite opposition, and avoiding falling into status-quo bias and information bias.
8) Stopping unproductive conversations sooner
9) Overall, I need to focus more on striving to learn things even from highly negative feedback, and avoid the instinct to flinch away or swing back. This is my aspiration, and I did not always succeed in the course of this discussion. However, I believe this experience will help me grow stronger in this domain.
Thanks all for your participation. As you see, you all taught me something. I appreciate you revealing your mental maps to the extent you chose to do so, and now my territory is clearer. My gratitude to you.
EDIT: Edited for formatting, the bullet points did not come out right away.
My overall updating from this thread has been:
Learning a lot more about the diversity of opinions and concerns among Less Wrongers.
1) Learning that there are a lot more risk-averse people on LW who are opposed to experimenting with new things, learning from experience, improving going forward, and optimizing the world, than I had previously thought.
2) Learned a lot about Less Wrongers’ “ew” experiences and flinching away from [modern marketing], despite some getting it
3) Learned that many Less Wrongers are strongly oriented toward perfectionism and bulletproof arguments at the expense of clarity and bridging inference gaps.
4) Surprised to see positive updates on my character (1, 2)as the result of this discussion, and will pay more attention to issues of character in the future—I think I paid too much attention to content previously and insufficient attention to character.
Updated toward some different strategies with Intentional Insights
1) Orienting Intentional Insights content more toward providing breadcrumbs of links toward more higher-quality materials than the people on Lifehack and The Huffington Post are currently reading
2) Teaching our audience about the dangers of overconfidence sooner.
3) Taking more concrete steps to minimize the risk of Endless September and tainting the term “rationality” by decreasing mentions of Less Wrong and rationality in our content.
4) Being more clear and specific in communicating scientific thinking to our audiences.
5) Learned more about The Virtue of Silence and need to keep this virtue in mind.
6) Learned to consider more the trade-offs of using and simplifying certain terms and concepts
7) Updating more toward taking well-considered action despite opposition, and avoiding falling into status-quo bias and information bias.
8) Stopping unproductive conversations sooner
9) Overall, I need to focus more on striving to learn things even from highly negative feedback, and avoid the instinct to flinch away or swing back. This is my aspiration, and I did not always succeed in the course of this discussion. However, I believe this experience will help me grow stronger in this domain.
Thanks all for your participation. As you see, you all taught me something. I appreciate you revealing your mental maps to the extent you chose to do so, and now my territory is clearer. My gratitude to you.
EDIT: Edited for formatting, the bullet points did not come out right away.