1. I like the general premise and metaphor a lot but am a little fuzzy on what you’re referring to exactly. I endorse a statement of the form “take arbitrary constraints and run with them rather than resisting them, it’ll at least be a fun and creative exercise.” But there’s probably something more to Boxing your Brain?
2. This reminds me of trying to learn life and death problems in Go. Trying to figure out general heuristics other than “read very carefully” seems hopeless. Perhaps AlphaGo would disagree.
The thing I’d like to point to in 1) is “sometimes, you just run with the meta-knowledge that your brain is corrupted <right now>, and you just default to your Shoulds”. And if any part of you tries to object, you silence it with a “Can’t listen to you right now! You’re compromised!”
Something like that has been useful for me in certain...sensitive, shall we say, situations.
<insert obvious caveats and problems with this approach here.>
1. I like the general premise and metaphor a lot but am a little fuzzy on what you’re referring to exactly. I endorse a statement of the form “take arbitrary constraints and run with them rather than resisting them, it’ll at least be a fun and creative exercise.” But there’s probably something more to Boxing your Brain?
2. This reminds me of trying to learn life and death problems in Go. Trying to figure out general heuristics other than “read very carefully” seems hopeless. Perhaps AlphaGo would disagree.
3. Good point.
The thing I’d like to point to in 1) is “sometimes, you just run with the meta-knowledge that your brain is corrupted <right now>, and you just default to your Shoulds”. And if any part of you tries to object, you silence it with a “Can’t listen to you right now! You’re compromised!”
Something like that has been useful for me in certain...sensitive, shall we say, situations.
<insert obvious caveats and problems with this approach here.>