Huh, this is quite an interesting take and I think conceptually updates me a bit on the state of human knowledge.
I initially was going to make a similar skeptical-comment-about-MooCs, but it didn’t really impact my main takeaways from this article. (Romeo’s comment also significantly updated me on how valuable MooCs were by putting them into better perspective).
But the main question I have now is:
What’s the state of scalable-tacit-knowledge for skills that _aren’t_ about physical-interactions (where, i.e. you can watch exactly how someone braids their hair) and are more about internal things like introspection.
A lot of rationality training seems hard to scale because it depends on tacit knowledge. It’s about internal mental motions, which you can’t really “watch someone make.” Or, you can, but you might easily misinterpret it. The tacit-knowledge-transfer comes from a teacher who is able to notice subtle mistakes you’re making and correcting them.
Hmm, thinking about doublecrux in particular (which has a history of being hard to teach) – something that might valuable is a video where a facilitator and two participants are working together, and the facilitator is very “hands on”, pausing them to ask questions about their internal states and what they’re going for and suggesting alternatives. Which might not actually be optimal for an individual doublecrux, but might make a much better doublecrux-learning-tool.
Huh, this is quite an interesting take and I think conceptually updates me a bit on the state of human knowledge.
I initially was going to make a similar skeptical-comment-about-MooCs, but it didn’t really impact my main takeaways from this article. (Romeo’s comment also significantly updated me on how valuable MooCs were by putting them into better perspective).
But the main question I have now is:
What’s the state of scalable-tacit-knowledge for skills that _aren’t_ about physical-interactions (where, i.e. you can watch exactly how someone braids their hair) and are more about internal things like introspection.
A lot of rationality training seems hard to scale because it depends on tacit knowledge. It’s about internal mental motions, which you can’t really “watch someone make.” Or, you can, but you might easily misinterpret it. The tacit-knowledge-transfer comes from a teacher who is able to notice subtle mistakes you’re making and correcting them.
Hmm, thinking about doublecrux in particular (which has a history of being hard to teach) – something that might valuable is a video where a facilitator and two participants are working together, and the facilitator is very “hands on”, pausing them to ask questions about their internal states and what they’re going for and suggesting alternatives. Which might not actually be optimal for an individual doublecrux, but might make a much better doublecrux-learning-tool.