Thinking about this now, not to sound self-congratulatory, but I’m impressed with the quantity and quality of examples I was able to stumble across. I’m a huge believer in examples and concreteness. Most of the time I’m unhappy with the posts I write in large part because I’m unhappy with the quantity and quality of examples. But it’s just so hard to think of good ones, and posting seems better than not posting, so I post.
I still endorse this post pretty strongly. Giving it a google strikes me as something that is still significantly underutilized. By the population at large certainly, but even for rationalists too. Maybe “significantly” is too strong a statement for rationalists actually. I’m not sure.
Something I really wish I talked about in the post is the idea that humans are not automatically strategic. I think that is probably the root of the problem.
Thinking about this now, not to sound self-congratulatory, but I’m impressed with the quantity and quality of examples I was able to stumble across. I’m a huge believer in examples and concreteness. Most of the time I’m unhappy with the posts I write in large part because I’m unhappy with the quantity and quality of examples. But it’s just so hard to think of good ones, and posting seems better than not posting, so I post.
I still endorse this post pretty strongly. Giving it a google strikes me as something that is still significantly underutilized. By the population at large certainly, but even for rationalists too. Maybe “significantly” is too strong a statement for rationalists actually. I’m not sure.
Something I really wish I talked about in the post is the idea that humans are not automatically strategic. I think that is probably the root of the problem.