This post distinguishes between the success of the LW community on identifying crypto and the relative failure on acting on crypto in a way that reminds me of how important it is to actually act on information instead of just processing it mentally.
I think this failure mode of understanding a problem but failing to act on that understanding is a very common one for me and I would expect for other readers. I think both emphasizing that this is a part of the problem to be solved, and illustrating specific benefits from solving that problem in a historical context, where you can actually assign monetary value to those outcomes, is a great way to emphasize the specific value involved in rationality.
Also the discussion quickly converges on a relatively cheap solution of writing up tutorial style documentation for processes like this that you’ve found to be high value. That kind of intro tutorial is one of the most valuable things to read for exactly this reason, because it can close that “understanding->action” gap and I would love to read more articles inspired by this notion that there are plots of value ready to be grasped.
This post distinguishes between the success of the LW community on identifying crypto and the relative failure on acting on crypto in a way that reminds me of how important it is to actually act on information instead of just processing it mentally.
I think this failure mode of understanding a problem but failing to act on that understanding is a very common one for me and I would expect for other readers. I think both emphasizing that this is a part of the problem to be solved, and illustrating specific benefits from solving that problem in a historical context, where you can actually assign monetary value to those outcomes, is a great way to emphasize the specific value involved in rationality.
Also the discussion quickly converges on a relatively cheap solution of writing up tutorial style documentation for processes like this that you’ve found to be high value. That kind of intro tutorial is one of the most valuable things to read for exactly this reason, because it can close that “understanding->action” gap and I would love to read more articles inspired by this notion that there are plots of value ready to be grasped.