I would love to help you build a pattern language for rationality! For a while I’ve been thinking I need to try to go through all the highest-rated posts in the history of this site, distill them in a way that is as easy as possible to grok (the act of distilling itself will push them more fully into my head), and form them into some kind of easily navigable knowledge structure.
In general, I am regularly frustrated by how difficult it is to get a bird’s eye view of systems of knowledge, and how often I feel like I’m just creeping around on the ground, my sight obscured by reeds, when I read about anything.
I’d like to make some kind of centralized, organized site for enabling any random person (particularly people who aren’t already smartypants like most LessWrongers) to go from knowing nothing about rationality to being at least at the level of Bella Swan in Alicorn’s “Luminosity” and “Radiance”. It would use zettelkasten and mnemonic medium principles, as well as pattern language principles (zettelkasten and pattern languages have, I suspect, some similarities that need to be explored more), explorable explanations, etc.
Of course, there’s tons of other things I also want to do, but that’s one of them.
I would love to help you build a pattern language for rationality! For a while I’ve been thinking I need to try to go through all the highest-rated posts in the history of this site, distill them in a way that is as easy as possible to grok (the act of distilling itself will push them more fully into my head), and form them into some kind of easily navigable knowledge structure.
In general, I am regularly frustrated by how difficult it is to get a bird’s eye view of systems of knowledge, and how often I feel like I’m just creeping around on the ground, my sight obscured by reeds, when I read about anything.
I’d like to make some kind of centralized, organized site for enabling any random person (particularly people who aren’t already smartypants like most LessWrongers) to go from knowing nothing about rationality to being at least at the level of Bella Swan in Alicorn’s “Luminosity” and “Radiance”. It would use zettelkasten and mnemonic medium principles, as well as pattern language principles (zettelkasten and pattern languages have, I suspect, some similarities that need to be explored more), explorable explanations, etc.
Of course, there’s tons of other things I also want to do, but that’s one of them.