I have what I hope is an interesting perspective here—I’m a super-not-clicker. I had to be dragged through most of the sequences, chipping away one dumb idea after another, until I Got It. I recognize this as basically my number one handicap. Introspecting about what causes it, I’ll back Eliezer’s compartmentalization idea.
For me, input flows into categorized and contextual storage. I can access it, but I have to look (and know to look, which I won’t if it’s not triggered). This is severe enough to impact my memory; I find I’m relying on almost-stigmergy, to-do-list cues activated by context, and I can literally slip out of doing one thing and into another if my contextual cues are off.
I think this is just my problem, but I wonder if it’s an exaggerated form of the way other people can just divert facts into a box and sit on them.
I had to be dragged through most of the sequences, chipping away one dumb idea after another, until I Got It.
Wow—you Got It after a lot of hard work? That must put you in the bottom 99.9% of all rationalists! I think you might be suffering from a bit of underconfidence here.
More like a lot of small insights. Clicks—but with all the data “in cache”, as loaded up by you and neatly lined up to connect.
I think you might be suffering from a bit of underconfidence here.
I don’t think I’m “the worstest rationalist ever”, just that I have a major problem clicking spontaneously from raw data. This seems to me to be the key skill of insight—drawing together a lot of local understandings into a global explanatory pattern. If I could crack this, I think my functional IQ would go up quite a bit.
I have what I hope is an interesting perspective here—I’m a super-not-clicker. I had to be dragged through most of the sequences, chipping away one dumb idea after another, until I Got It. I recognize this as basically my number one handicap. Introspecting about what causes it, I’ll back Eliezer’s compartmentalization idea.
For me, input flows into categorized and contextual storage. I can access it, but I have to look (and know to look, which I won’t if it’s not triggered). This is severe enough to impact my memory; I find I’m relying on almost-stigmergy, to-do-list cues activated by context, and I can literally slip out of doing one thing and into another if my contextual cues are off.
I think this is just my problem, but I wonder if it’s an exaggerated form of the way other people can just divert facts into a box and sit on them.
Wow—you Got It after a lot of hard work? That must put you in the bottom 99.9% of all rationalists! I think you might be suffering from a bit of underconfidence here.
You mean most people don’t read the Sequences and go “Yeah, that’s exactly right!”
Hmm.
More like a lot of small insights. Clicks—but with all the data “in cache”, as loaded up by you and neatly lined up to connect.
I don’t think I’m “the worstest rationalist ever”, just that I have a major problem clicking spontaneously from raw data. This seems to me to be the key skill of insight—drawing together a lot of local understandings into a global explanatory pattern. If I could crack this, I think my functional IQ would go up quite a bit.