Regularly meta-optimization
The usefulness of the different actions differ by orders of magnitude. Sometimes, redirecting efforts can increase your efficiency by an order of magnitude or more.
Imagine that the person who first came up with the idea of sorting charitable foundations by efficiency, instead of implementing it, went to wash the dishes. Or Eliezer decided that creating a community is long and strange.
I’m not sure about the others, but I’m discarding many ideas, including potentially extremely effective ones, because I’m using the absurdity heuristic (this idea will change the world too much to be true). Or I reject ideas, because in order to implement them I will have to leave my comfort zone, and it causes me negative emotions.
Therefore, I came up with a technique that I call Regularly Meta-Optimization. It consists in regular trying to find potentially extremely effective ideas among those that you have been thinking about lately.
One of the potentially very effective ideas for me is to share a few of my potentially very effective blog ideas that can be implemented by anyone.
Creating a rationalistic YouTube channel. If we convince at least 20% of people of the danger of uncoordinated GAI, we will probably be able to get the government regulation we need in this area. The spread of rationality can also lead to very large positive side effects, for example, by radically increasing funding for anti-aging research and effective charity funds. This is feasible because rationalist ideas are most likely interesting to a significant number of people when presented correctly, because these are our ideas that are true, and therefore they are more convincing.
I would suggest using less clickbaity titles on LessWrong
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No, not really. I read it twice but couldn’t bring myself to care. It seems you are going into tangents and not actually talking directly about your technique. I could be wrong, but I also couldn’t care enough to read into the sentences and understand what you’re actually pointing at with all the words. Having conclusion is nice because I jumped straight to that at first, seems kind of too normal to justify the clickbait though. Overall I feel like I read some ramblings and didn’t learn much.
I’m talking about doing an audit of your whole life regularly, desperately trying to find the most effective things. Also, this technique is about highlighting potentially the most effective actions that you didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about, but put them down as “stupid” because, for example, you need to get out of your comfort zone.
Does it clear?
that is much clearer that I think you should have said it out loud in the post
Okay I’ll rewrite the post. Thanks for your answers