Last night, here in Portland (OR), some friends and I got together to try to start Rationality Dojo. We talked about it for a while and came up with exactly 4 exercises that we could readily practice:
We also had a whole bunch of semi-formed ideas about selecting a target (happiness, health) and optimizing it a month at a time. Starting a dojo, in a time before organized martial arts, was surely incredibly difficult. I hope we can accrete exercises rather than require a single sensei to invent the majority of the discipline. So I’ve added a category to the wiki, and I’m asking here. Do you have ideas or refinements for exercises to fit within rationality dojo?
Rationality Dojo
Last night, here in Portland (OR), some friends and I got together to try to start Rationality Dojo. We talked about it for a while and came up with exactly 4 exercises that we could readily practice:
Play Paranoid Debating
Play the AI-Box experiment
Read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Write fanfiction in the style of #3
We also had a whole bunch of semi-formed ideas about selecting a target (happiness, health) and optimizing it a month at a time. Starting a dojo, in a time before organized martial arts, was surely incredibly difficult. I hope we can accrete exercises rather than require a single sensei to invent the majority of the discipline. So I’ve added a category to the wiki, and I’m asking here. Do you have ideas or refinements for exercises to fit within rationality dojo?