A mental move not trained won’t be deployed at the correct moment
A mental move that does not resolve a pain point won’t be trained
Pain that isn’t noticed won’t be resolved
Pain that seems a natural consequence of your current belief structure won’t be noticed
Get intimate with what flinching away or ignoring a pain point feels like from the inside by creating artificial conditions to practice the technique. Observe your mind as you eat spicy food, turn the shower to cold, or run farther than your mind insists you can. Because you’ll never notice the perfectly reasonable excuses if you don’t start by noticing the ridiculous excuses.
Prioritizing dealing with the small pains is a commitment to cultivating the exact skills that will help you deal with the big pains.
Rationality Framework: From guessing the teacher’s password to generating the teacher’s password.
deliberately practice deliberate practice until you have the skill of noticing the length of feedback loops.
The purpose is to move from a model of rationality that matches desires with resources to one that understands the structure of resource generating processes.
Two questions highlight this:
When is the earliest I will know it failed?
When is the latest I will it worked?
Strategies without well defined endpoints can take up unlimited energy for unlimited time. The reason that old people annoy you is that you recognize when a person has turned into a bundle of sphexish strategies.
In order to avoid this, become a person who can notice when a strategy can not, even in principle, accomplish its stated aim. (And investigate motivated reasoning that might have lead you to instantiate such a strategy, like secretly not wanting the results of a working strategy.)
Blindspot: One Framework to Rule them All.
Deformation professionelle runs much deeper than generally supposed. Frameworks for interpreting the world generally aren’t falsifiable because they mostly generate the same predictions. Instead they tend to diverge in exactly those areas where feedback loops for predicative validity are poor. This is likely a feature, not a bug. There is a selection effect on frameworks and the most successful produce correct answers in all the important ways while giving holders ways of asserting superiority in ways that are difficult to verify.
You can spend unlimited time arguing about the specifics of framework divergence rather than notice that the argument you are having is the selected for outcome.
This is an *excellent* use of 30 minutes.
Rationality Technique: Feel Pain
A mental move not trained won’t be deployed at the correct moment
A mental move that does not resolve a pain point won’t be trained
Pain that isn’t noticed won’t be resolved
Pain that seems a natural consequence of your current belief structure won’t be noticed
Get intimate with what flinching away or ignoring a pain point feels like from the inside by creating artificial conditions to practice the technique. Observe your mind as you eat spicy food, turn the shower to cold, or run farther than your mind insists you can. Because you’ll never notice the perfectly reasonable excuses if you don’t start by noticing the ridiculous excuses.
Prioritizing dealing with the small pains is a commitment to cultivating the exact skills that will help you deal with the big pains.
Rationality Framework: From guessing the teacher’s password to generating the teacher’s password.
deliberately practice deliberate practice until you have the skill of noticing the length of feedback loops.
The purpose is to move from a model of rationality that matches desires with resources to one that understands the structure of resource generating processes.
Two questions highlight this:
When is the earliest I will know it failed?
When is the latest I will it worked?
Strategies without well defined endpoints can take up unlimited energy for unlimited time. The reason that old people annoy you is that you recognize when a person has turned into a bundle of sphexish strategies.
In order to avoid this, become a person who can notice when a strategy can not, even in principle, accomplish its stated aim. (And investigate motivated reasoning that might have lead you to instantiate such a strategy, like secretly not wanting the results of a working strategy.)
Blindspot: One Framework to Rule them All.
Deformation professionelle runs much deeper than generally supposed. Frameworks for interpreting the world generally aren’t falsifiable because they mostly generate the same predictions. Instead they tend to diverge in exactly those areas where feedback loops for predicative validity are poor. This is likely a feature, not a bug. There is a selection effect on frameworks and the most successful produce correct answers in all the important ways while giving holders ways of asserting superiority in ways that are difficult to verify.
You can spend unlimited time arguing about the specifics of framework divergence rather than notice that the argument you are having is the selected for outcome.