I can start to read intoa pattern where in the theorethical sections he can refer to concepts as previously known as they are “srpinkled in beforehand” where their previous appearance are justified but only like weakly justified, standing out as odd inclusions. I guess it helps with salience but it also feels like a manipulative technique as it makes it seems artificially profound, the first instances are pretty trivial and then they are reused in critical junctions. Like in the movie Inception, it is a revelation planned out by an outside force in order to achieve a goalstate of the outside agent.
Just bruteforcing a big search space feels to my brain to more be frustration rather than suicide, more of a null operation rather than being actively harmful. Sure it is an unwise move but part of the threat of it would be that it doesn’t “timeout” it doesn’t say itself that it is a bad idea (whereas having a thing like a sword in your stomach would probably make it pretty salient that this choice might not be the most conductive to biological prosperity).
I don’t now how much it is baked into the idea of heuristics but if you are stuck using only preselected heuristics then the lack of flexibility and blindspots are obvoius. What one would ideally want to do is come up with the heuristics on the fly and I guess that is part of what relevance realization is going to be about.
Having watched some things out of order I can see him struggle to keep the narrative in check seeing slips where how he is thinking about it is in conflict how the narrative is progressing.
It was weird that the covering problem in the part when “people usually frame it as a covering problem” it made my brain predict that “it is actually a parity problem”. But that impulse did not make it obvious what the trick was like. At the mention of what the colors of the removed squares are I predicted the “domino stands on different colored squares” property, how it is helpful and important. I was in this weird state that I vaguely had a hint of what the trick was about without it being obvious and not making all the connections.
I was thinking that part of the problem formulation is instead of seeing the problem as “ground level moves” bruteforcing throught the heuristics would be less combinatorily explosive. In this kind of search “just ehaust all options” would be rather quickly categorised as “doesn’t solve atleast fast”. And this process is likely recursive in that one could come up with strategies in which order to try heuristics. and in the other direction “searching all the options” is a stepping back of the kind of procedure “a thing I am doing doesn’t work (errors), lets do something else”. Frustration on this level would mean repeating the action and the error verbatim. This seems to be connected to “madness is doing the same thing and expecting different results” and the skill of saying oops.
A lot of lesswrongian values seems to be referenced with feeling of discovering them from a different angle. Here their importance on how they upkeep other systems is more pronounced. With previous expose on lesswrong it was more in the flavour of “here is a thing that you can aquire and is cool”.
I can start to read intoa pattern where in the theorethical sections he can refer to concepts as previously known as they are “srpinkled in beforehand” where their previous appearance are justified but only like weakly justified, standing out as odd inclusions. I guess it helps with salience but it also feels like a manipulative technique as it makes it seems artificially profound, the first instances are pretty trivial and then they are reused in critical junctions. Like in the movie Inception, it is a revelation planned out by an outside force in order to achieve a goalstate of the outside agent.
Just bruteforcing a big search space feels to my brain to more be frustration rather than suicide, more of a null operation rather than being actively harmful. Sure it is an unwise move but part of the threat of it would be that it doesn’t “timeout” it doesn’t say itself that it is a bad idea (whereas having a thing like a sword in your stomach would probably make it pretty salient that this choice might not be the most conductive to biological prosperity).
I don’t now how much it is baked into the idea of heuristics but if you are stuck using only preselected heuristics then the lack of flexibility and blindspots are obvoius. What one would ideally want to do is come up with the heuristics on the fly and I guess that is part of what relevance realization is going to be about.
Having watched some things out of order I can see him struggle to keep the narrative in check seeing slips where how he is thinking about it is in conflict how the narrative is progressing.
It was weird that the covering problem in the part when “people usually frame it as a covering problem” it made my brain predict that “it is actually a parity problem”. But that impulse did not make it obvious what the trick was like. At the mention of what the colors of the removed squares are I predicted the “domino stands on different colored squares” property, how it is helpful and important. I was in this weird state that I vaguely had a hint of what the trick was about without it being obvious and not making all the connections.
I was thinking that part of the problem formulation is instead of seeing the problem as “ground level moves” bruteforcing throught the heuristics would be less combinatorily explosive. In this kind of search “just ehaust all options” would be rather quickly categorised as “doesn’t solve atleast fast”. And this process is likely recursive in that one could come up with strategies in which order to try heuristics. and in the other direction “searching all the options” is a stepping back of the kind of procedure “a thing I am doing doesn’t work (errors), lets do something else”. Frustration on this level would mean repeating the action and the error verbatim. This seems to be connected to “madness is doing the same thing and expecting different results” and the skill of saying oops.
A lot of lesswrongian values seems to be referenced with feeling of discovering them from a different angle. Here their importance on how they upkeep other systems is more pronounced. With previous expose on lesswrong it was more in the flavour of “here is a thing that you can aquire and is cool”.