Cognitive tuning isn’t very foundational, and possibly not even safe (although people worried about the safety seem to be mistaken). But if enough people try it, then it has significant potential to become its own entire field of successful human intelligence augmentation. AFAIK it offers a more nuanced approach to intelligence-augmenting habit formation than anything I’ve seen from any other source.
The CFAR handbook is good stuff that gets at important aspects of rationality, but I don’t think it counts either as something that core LessWrong userbase has mostly read, or is nearly as much the stuff that gets used regularly in conversations here. Among other things, the PDF of it wasn’t generally available until 2020, and a nicely formatted sequence until a year ago.
Could the CFAR handbook or Tuning your cognitive strategies be put in the foundational reading section, alongside the Sequences and Codex and HPMOR?
Cognitive tuning isn’t very foundational, and possibly not even safe (although people worried about the safety seem to be mistaken). But if enough people try it, then it has significant potential to become its own entire field of successful human intelligence augmentation. AFAIK it offers a more nuanced approach to intelligence-augmenting habit formation than anything I’ve seen from any other source.
The CFAR handbook is good stuff that gets at important aspects of rationality, but I don’t think it counts either as something that core LessWrong userbase has mostly read, or is nearly as much the stuff that gets used regularly in conversations here. Among other things, the PDF of it wasn’t generally available until 2020, and a nicely formatted sequence until a year ago.