For those of us who for whatever reason can’t make it to a CFAR workshop, what are the best ways to get more or less the equivalent? A lot of the information they teach is in the Sequences (but not all of it, from what it looks like), but my impression is that much of the value from a workshop is in (a) hands-on activities, (b) interactions with others, and (c) personalized applications of rationality principles developed in numerous one-on-one and small-group sessions.
So I’m looking for:
Resources for getting the information that’s not covered (or at least not comprehensively covered) in the Sequences.
Ideas for how to simulate the activities.
Ideas for how to simulate the small group interactions. This is mainly what LW meetups are for, but for various reasons I can’t usually make it to a meetup.
How to simulate the one-on-one personalized training.
That last one is probably the hardest, and I suspect it’s impossible without either (a) spending an awful lot of time developing the techniques yourself, or (b) getting a tutor. So, anybody interested in being a rationality tutor?
Find & read good self-help type stuff (relevant books by psychologists, Less Wrong posts, Sebastian Marshall, Getting Things Done, etc.) and invent/experiment with your own techniques in a systematic way. Do Tiny Habits. Start meditating. Watch & apply this video. Keep a log of all the failure modes you run in to and catalogue strategies for overcoming each of them. Read about habit formation. Brainstorm & collect habits that would be useful to have and pair them with habit formation techniques. Try lots of techniques and reflect about why things are or are not working.
Have you asked CFAR whether you could hire one of their instructors to give you one-on-one training over Skype? I expect it would be expensive, but they are flexible with people who are willing to pay thousands of dollars.
Ideas for how to simulate the small group interactions. This is mainly what LW meetups are for, but for various reasons I can’t usually make it to a meetup.
One of the best things that happened to me was getting into a tumblr rationalist group on skype. The feeling is a bit like a meetup, except people are available all the time.
So, anybody interested in being a rationality tutor?
Yes, but I’m not yet versed enough in the Art to help anyone except a novice. If you have specific things you want to discuss I can probably point you in the right direction.
This is also what the skype group (or meetups) are good for. There will always be someone who can help you with a particular issue.
For those of us who for whatever reason can’t make it to a CFAR workshop, what are the best ways to get more or less the equivalent? A lot of the information they teach is in the Sequences (but not all of it, from what it looks like), but my impression is that much of the value from a workshop is in (a) hands-on activities, (b) interactions with others, and (c) personalized applications of rationality principles developed in numerous one-on-one and small-group sessions.
So I’m looking for:
Resources for getting the information that’s not covered (or at least not comprehensively covered) in the Sequences.
Ideas for how to simulate the activities.
Ideas for how to simulate the small group interactions. This is mainly what LW meetups are for, but for various reasons I can’t usually make it to a meetup.
How to simulate the one-on-one personalized training.
That last one is probably the hardest, and I suspect it’s impossible without either (a) spending an awful lot of time developing the techniques yourself, or (b) getting a tutor. So, anybody interested in being a rationality tutor?
Find & read good self-help type stuff (relevant books by psychologists, Less Wrong posts, Sebastian Marshall, Getting Things Done, etc.) and invent/experiment with your own techniques in a systematic way. Do Tiny Habits. Start meditating. Watch & apply this video. Keep a log of all the failure modes you run in to and catalogue strategies for overcoming each of them. Read about habit formation. Brainstorm & collect habits that would be useful to have and pair them with habit formation techniques. Try lots of techniques and reflect about why things are or are not working.
Have you asked CFAR whether you could hire one of their instructors to give you one-on-one training over Skype? I expect it would be expensive, but they are flexible with people who are willing to pay thousands of dollars.
One of the best things that happened to me was getting into a tumblr rationalist group on skype. The feeling is a bit like a meetup, except people are available all the time.
Yes, but I’m not yet versed enough in the Art to help anyone except a novice. If you have specific things you want to discuss I can probably point you in the right direction.
This is also what the skype group (or meetups) are good for. There will always be someone who can help you with a particular issue.