this post was almost-useless for me—i learn from it much less then from any post for the sequences. what i did learn: how over-generalization look like. that someone think that other people learn rationality skills in a way that i never saw anyone learn from, with totally different language and way of thinking about that. that translating is important.
the way i see it is: people look on the world with different lens. my rationality skills are the lens that are instinctive to me and include in the rationality-skills subset.
i learned them mostly be seeing examples and creating a category for it.
all those exercises not only didn’t work for me, i have much less idea what Yudkowsky tried to teach, while from the sequences i did manged to learn some things.
maybe the core rationality skill is the ability to bridge the gap between theory and practice? i consider “go one meta level higher” the most important one. it creates important feedback loop.
also, in most situations i consider going level higher—give category and not example—good idea.
i actually learned that examples are really good thing and that is the natural way humans learn. i think it’s part of the things the post tried to say, but i’m not sure. this is one of the least understandable post of Yudkowsky i ever read.
this post was almost-useless for me—i learn from it much less then from any post for the sequences. what i did learn: how over-generalization look like. that someone think that other people learn rationality skills in a way that i never saw anyone learn from, with totally different language and way of thinking about that. that translating is important.
the way i see it is: people look on the world with different lens. my rationality skills are the lens that are instinctive to me and include in the rationality-skills subset.
i learned them mostly be seeing examples and creating a category for it.
all those exercises not only didn’t work for me, i have much less idea what Yudkowsky tried to teach, while from the sequences i did manged to learn some things.
maybe the core rationality skill is the ability to bridge the gap between theory and practice? i consider “go one meta level higher” the most important one. it creates important feedback loop.
also, in most situations i consider going level higher—give category and not example—good idea.
i actually learned that examples are really good thing and that is the natural way humans learn. i think it’s part of the things the post tried to say, but i’m not sure. this is one of the least understandable post of Yudkowsky i ever read.