I was afraid going into this post (about this post triggering idea inoculation around circling) but I’m a lot more relieved now after reading through to the end. Thanks for writing such a reasonable and even-handed description!
I have embarrassingly strong things to say in favor of circling. It has, with no exaggeration, changed my life (see, this is why I shouldn’t have written the first LW post about circling), although I think I’ve also been lucky to get to work with unusually good facilitators. Re: its relevance to rationality, I think that among many other things it can be a powerful way to find blind spots, although it’s also susceptible to many levels of Goodharting.
I was afraid going into this post (about this post triggering idea inoculation around circling) but I’m a lot more relieved now after reading through to the end. Thanks for writing such a reasonable and even-handed description!
I have embarrassingly strong things to say in favor of circling. It has, with no exaggeration, changed my life (see, this is why I shouldn’t have written the first LW post about circling), although I think I’ve also been lucky to get to work with unusually good facilitators. Re: its relevance to rationality, I think that among many other things it can be a powerful way to find blind spots, although it’s also susceptible to many levels of Goodharting.