I know the basics, but there are people on this site far more advanced than I.
I think the basics are the hardest part. In some sense the fancy mental states are not the things that’s hardest to learn.
If you think you know the basics you won’t be in “beginners mind”. The hard thing is to see where you don’t get the basics.
When I lately asked for the basics of rationality of this website the first response I got was: “Could you please more clear, I don’t know what exactly you mean with basics.”
Then I did get a bunch of interesting stuff but most of it wasn’t atomic.
Part of the reason why we don’t have a good Anki deck for rationality made by someone on Lesswrong is that we don’t know the basics of rationality well enough to break rationality down into atomic units that could be learned via Anki.
The post I wrote asking about the basic of rationality was motivated by having an experience during something of a meditation session with discussion afterwards in which I learned something new about basics and I think the teacher as well. And I’m a person who has years of experience with meditation, spent significant effort last year in trying to learn grammar to get a better understanding of individual chunks of meaning and tried to atomize knowledge for Anki learning for years.
You might be right, that you are probably not in a good position to give recommendations on finding a good teacher.
I think the basics are the hardest part. In some sense the fancy mental states are not the things that’s hardest to learn. If you think you know the basics you won’t be in “beginners mind”. The hard thing is to see where you don’t get the basics.
When I lately asked for the basics of rationality of this website the first response I got was: “Could you please more clear, I don’t know what exactly you mean with basics.” Then I did get a bunch of interesting stuff but most of it wasn’t atomic.
Part of the reason why we don’t have a good Anki deck for rationality made by someone on Lesswrong is that we don’t know the basics of rationality well enough to break rationality down into atomic units that could be learned via Anki.
The post I wrote asking about the basic of rationality was motivated by having an experience during something of a meditation session with discussion afterwards in which I learned something new about basics and I think the teacher as well. And I’m a person who has years of experience with meditation, spent significant effort last year in trying to learn grammar to get a better understanding of individual chunks of meaning and tried to atomize knowledge for Anki learning for years.
You might be right, that you are probably not in a good position to give recommendations on finding a good teacher.