Has any one been working on the basics of rationality or summarizing the sequences? I think it would be helpful if someone created a sequence in which they cover the less wrong core concepts concisely as well as providing practical advice on how to apply rationality skills related to these concepts at the 5 second level.
A useful format for the posts might be: overview of concept, example in which people frequently fail at being rational because they innately don’t follow the concept and then advice on how to apply the concept.
Or another format might be: principle underlying multiple less wrong concepts, examples in which people fail at being rational because they don’t follow the concepts and then advice on how to deal with the principle and become more rational.
I think that all these posts should summed up with or contain pratical methods on how to improve rationality skills and ways to quantify and measure these improvements. The results of CFAR workshops could probably provide a basis for these methods.
Lots of links to the related less wrong posts or wikis would also be useful.
The Rationality eBook is out now, which is an improvement over where things stood four years ago.
The nice thing about summarizing the Sequences / separating the useful concepts from blog posts / writing new explanations for those concepts is that it’s a thing that you can do, and partial completion is useful. The wiki is the natural place to host this.
I assume you mean Rationality: From AI to Zombies. I have read this. I think that the wiki is brilliant for: concise definitions of the concepts, hosting the links to all of the related posts and storing reference data like the meanings of acronyms. I guess I am more looking for something that would work as an introduction for less wrong newbies, a refresher of the main concepts for less wrong veterans and a guideline or best practices document which will explain methods that can be used to apply the core less wrong concepts. These methods should preferrably have been verified to be useful in some way.
I suppose I could write summaries/new explanations, but I have the following problems with this:
I am sure that there are other people on this site who could do a much better job at this than I can
I don’t have any practical experience teaching these concepts to others
I don’t have access to data on what methods have worked in teaching these concepts to others
There is the reading group. I’m also short on experience on what ingrains techniques in one’s life, but it seems that consistent and gradual integration is one way.
Noticing when the concept will be relevant is the first step. Making sure you have a way of honing situational noticing is more difficult. Application only gets a chance when these two things are developed to a decent extent.
Brienne has a blog that goes into detail on this. Useful.
But no one has gone through the entirety of the sequences and compacted them entirely. I am starting a practical application system overview for myself, and will begin posting results with the reading group. It will take a long time before the posts are complete and ready to be compiled, however.
Has any one been working on the basics of rationality or summarizing the sequences? I think it would be helpful if someone created a sequence in which they cover the less wrong core concepts concisely as well as providing practical advice on how to apply rationality skills related to these concepts at the 5 second level.
A useful format for the posts might be: overview of concept, example in which people frequently fail at being rational because they innately don’t follow the concept and then advice on how to apply the concept. Or another format might be: principle underlying multiple less wrong concepts, examples in which people fail at being rational because they don’t follow the concepts and then advice on how to deal with the principle and become more rational.
I think that all these posts should summed up with or contain pratical methods on how to improve rationality skills and ways to quantify and measure these improvements. The results of CFAR workshops could probably provide a basis for these methods.
Lots of links to the related less wrong posts or wikis would also be useful.
The Rationality eBook is out now, which is an improvement over where things stood four years ago.
The nice thing about summarizing the Sequences / separating the useful concepts from blog posts / writing new explanations for those concepts is that it’s a thing that you can do, and partial completion is useful. The wiki is the natural place to host this.
I assume you mean Rationality: From AI to Zombies. I have read this. I think that the wiki is brilliant for: concise definitions of the concepts, hosting the links to all of the related posts and storing reference data like the meanings of acronyms. I guess I am more looking for something that would work as an introduction for less wrong newbies, a refresher of the main concepts for less wrong veterans and a guideline or best practices document which will explain methods that can be used to apply the core less wrong concepts. These methods should preferrably have been verified to be useful in some way.
I suppose I could write summaries/new explanations, but I have the following problems with this:
I am sure that there are other people on this site who could do a much better job at this than I can
I don’t have any practical experience teaching these concepts to others
I don’t have access to data on what methods have worked in teaching these concepts to others
There is the reading group. I’m also short on experience on what ingrains techniques in one’s life, but it seems that consistent and gradual integration is one way.
Noticing when the concept will be relevant is the first step. Making sure you have a way of honing situational noticing is more difficult. Application only gets a chance when these two things are developed to a decent extent.
Brienne has a blog that goes into detail on this. Useful.
But no one has gone through the entirety of the sequences and compacted them entirely. I am starting a practical application system overview for myself, and will begin posting results with the reading group. It will take a long time before the posts are complete and ready to be compiled, however.