Thanks for sharing this! I’ve read Feedbackloop-first Rationality, and it’s definitely contributed why I want to build something like this. I’ve even been looking for Thinking Physics style problems that might be free to use online. Getting a diverse and quality set of interesting problems I think will be difficult whether its aggregated, crowdsourced, or possibly AI generated.
My agenda is written up in the Feedbackloop-first Rationality sequence. The basic idea is that rationality is bottlenecked on inventing better feedbackloops that train the actually important skills. (You can look over the “exercises” section)
This will be very important because if a tool like this can be used to practice something hundreds of times. It should of course be something you actually want to reinforce. If designed poorly, it could become a waste of time or, worse, actually harm one’s thinking. I’ll definitely take a look at more of these exercises.
My general strategy has been to take existing puzzles/exercises that have a fair amount of depth, such that in order to solve it you’re going to need to:
make a plan for gaining more information about the puzzle
make a plan for acting on that information
It might be good to have an answer template that guides users through these kinds of thinking steps. This could help build the habit of thinking systematically. With so many problem types, though, it’s challenging to settle on effective schemas that could apply to multiple problems.
Yeah I’m basic using the lens of my cognitive bootcamp series to iron out the pedagogy here. I try to write up LW posts for all the key takeaways and exercises, although it takes awhile.
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve read Feedbackloop-first Rationality, and it’s definitely contributed why I want to build something like this. I’ve even been looking for Thinking Physics style problems that might be free to use online. Getting a diverse and quality set of interesting problems I think will be difficult whether its aggregated, crowdsourced, or possibly AI generated.
This will be very important because if a tool like this can be used to practice something hundreds of times. It should of course be something you actually want to reinforce. If designed poorly, it could become a waste of time or, worse, actually harm one’s thinking. I’ll definitely take a look at more of these exercises.
It might be good to have an answer template that guides users through these kinds of thinking steps. This could help build the habit of thinking systematically. With so many problem types, though, it’s challenging to settle on effective schemas that could apply to multiple problems.
Yeah I’m basic using the lens of my cognitive bootcamp series to iron out the pedagogy here. I try to write up LW posts for all the key takeaways and exercises, although it takes awhile.