Ooops I miscommunicated. I think the surface analogy isn’t the most interesting part of this.
I was more interested in what ideas you had for training epistemological ability. The burst vs endurance thing could be interesting if it could be detailed in on its own terms (ie. inside view instead of analogizing).
I’ve been thinking a lot about rationality training recently, so anything that looks like a possible excercise really catches my attention.
So it must have been “pondering as a rationality skill” which got your attention. Sorry for misinterpreting. :)
For me it’s not hard to ponder. I do that naturally. But I don’t always ponder exactly what I’m told to ponder, even when I have every reason to think the person who told me to ponder something knows what they’re talking about and this is something that if I ponder it I will benefit from the resulting enlightenment. It’s like there is something in the nature of pondering that is perverse and rebellious (at least for the way my mind works, some of the time).
Perhaps a good exercise would be to deliberately ponder specific things that you aren’t (yet) naturally curious about. Maybe set a timer and commit to only focus on that particular topic until the timer goes off. I wonder what an optimal time length would be? Also, what kinds of topics could/should be used for the exercise?
Ooops I miscommunicated. I think the surface analogy isn’t the most interesting part of this.
I was more interested in what ideas you had for training epistemological ability. The burst vs endurance thing could be interesting if it could be detailed in on its own terms (ie. inside view instead of analogizing).
I’ve been thinking a lot about rationality training recently, so anything that looks like a possible excercise really catches my attention.
So it must have been “pondering as a rationality skill” which got your attention. Sorry for misinterpreting. :)
For me it’s not hard to ponder. I do that naturally. But I don’t always ponder exactly what I’m told to ponder, even when I have every reason to think the person who told me to ponder something knows what they’re talking about and this is something that if I ponder it I will benefit from the resulting enlightenment. It’s like there is something in the nature of pondering that is perverse and rebellious (at least for the way my mind works, some of the time).
Perhaps a good exercise would be to deliberately ponder specific things that you aren’t (yet) naturally curious about. Maybe set a timer and commit to only focus on that particular topic until the timer goes off. I wonder what an optimal time length would be? Also, what kinds of topics could/should be used for the exercise?