Is your worry more about “maybe this technique is more dangerous than it looks?” or “maybe people will follow up on this by generally following SquirrelInHell’s footsteps, and maybe not all those footsteps are safe?”
I think that might be true, but, at that level, I think it kinda makes more sense to put the warning over, like, the entirety of rationality techniques, and I think singling ones that SquirrelInHell wrote up doesn’t actually seem like the right abstraction.
Like, I do generally think there’s a failure mode to fall into here. I don’t think SquirrelInHell is the only person to have fallen into it.
This post does seem like it warrants some specific warnings (which the original post already included). But I think those warnings are mostly unrelated to what ultimately went wrong.
Is your worry more about “maybe this technique is more dangerous than it looks?” or “maybe people will follow up on this by generally following SquirrelInHell’s footsteps, and maybe not all those footsteps are safe?”
More the latter. Or more like, doing things like this technique too much/too hard could be dangerous.
I think that might be true, but, at that level, I think it kinda makes more sense to put the warning over, like, the entirety of rationality techniques, and I think singling ones that SquirrelInHell wrote up doesn’t actually seem like the right abstraction.
Like, I do generally think there’s a failure mode to fall into here. I don’t think SquirrelInHell is the only person to have fallen into it.
This post does seem like it warrants some specific warnings (which the original post already included). But I think those warnings are mostly unrelated to what ultimately went wrong.