This is why I like Naruto as a rationalist fanfic substrate: perceptual skills are explicitly upstream of action skills in the naruto universe. I think this mirrors the real universe and explains much of the valley of bad self-help. Action skills are pointless if you don’t have the cues on when where and why to deploy them.
Another frame on the same concept: don’t keep teaching people spells when their mana pool size sucks.
I currently have almost zero knowledge of Naruto and I’m interested in hearing more things about the perception/action skills thing as it applies to Naruto Classic (and/or rationalist!naruto)
Time Braid and The Waves Arisen. Super fun reads, and also seem to put me in agenty mode better even than other rationalist fics. I haven’t seen the naruto anime and I got on just fine with both.
As for why my model works this way: heavily influenced by the research on deliberate practice#Deliberate_practice). Essentially, it caused me to see expert performance as the combination of several core traits which are all predicated on perceptual skills. The first is generating the correct chunkings that mirror the causal structure in the domain in the first place, which are composed of distinctions that you must learn to make. If you’ve ever done something like music where you went from hearing complicated sounds to hearing specific ‘phrases’ this is what i’m pointing to with perception of chunks. In order to build these up one has to also isolate the feedback/reward loop that allows you to zero in on your performance of that chunk. Cleanly delineating the hits from the misses and having that information be on the smallest time delay possible. The other skill is navigating the chunked tree, which is predicated on perception of cues/proxies that indicate which decision paths to take in your knowledge tree. This structure then has the ability to get activated by experiences in the real world, where you notice something that looks like a chunk you’ve already seen. Normal self help techniques generally don’t have these hooks that fire in specific times and places, meaning you likely just don’t remember to use them.
This is why I like Naruto as a rationalist fanfic substrate: perceptual skills are explicitly upstream of action skills in the naruto universe. I think this mirrors the real universe and explains much of the valley of bad self-help. Action skills are pointless if you don’t have the cues on when where and why to deploy them.
Another frame on the same concept: don’t keep teaching people spells when their mana pool size sucks.
I currently have almost zero knowledge of Naruto and I’m interested in hearing more things about the perception/action skills thing as it applies to Naruto Classic (and/or rationalist!naruto)
Time Braid and The Waves Arisen. Super fun reads, and also seem to put me in agenty mode better even than other rationalist fics. I haven’t seen the naruto anime and I got on just fine with both.
As for why my model works this way: heavily influenced by the research on deliberate practice#Deliberate_practice). Essentially, it caused me to see expert performance as the combination of several core traits which are all predicated on perceptual skills. The first is generating the correct chunkings that mirror the causal structure in the domain in the first place, which are composed of distinctions that you must learn to make. If you’ve ever done something like music where you went from hearing complicated sounds to hearing specific ‘phrases’ this is what i’m pointing to with perception of chunks. In order to build these up one has to also isolate the feedback/reward loop that allows you to zero in on your performance of that chunk. Cleanly delineating the hits from the misses and having that information be on the smallest time delay possible. The other skill is navigating the chunked tree, which is predicated on perception of cues/proxies that indicate which decision paths to take in your knowledge tree. This structure then has the ability to get activated by experiences in the real world, where you notice something that looks like a chunk you’ve already seen. Normal self help techniques generally don’t have these hooks that fire in specific times and places, meaning you likely just don’t remember to use them.
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