Squirrel, if you’re reading this, I will straight up pay you money to finish fleshing out tune your motor cortex, because I’m super intrigued but wary that I’ll mess up horribly or just waste a lot of time if I misinterpret things at the current level of detail. We can work out details via PM.
What are the immediate applications of Hammertime tools towards truth-seeking? Are there TAPs, Design decisions, CoZE experiments, or Focusing techniques that you would immediately recommend to increase epistemic standards?
I think CoZE and Focusing are both much more relevant to epistemic rationality than most people who aren’t CFAR staff are explicitly modeling. They’re both tools for helping you approach thinking about the things that you can’t think about because you get suspiciously forgetful and sleepy whenever you try, or consistently find your attention wandering away from, which could include, for example, the reality of existential risk. IDC is even more about this, as is Leverage’s CT charting (it might have evolved / have a different name now, I’m not up to date).
(You should be suspicious if you think you don’t have anything like this; the whole point of getting suspiciously forgetful and sleepy and having your attention wander is that you can’t tell afterwards. Blindspots are really serious business. Another lesson you can learn from circling when done right.)
(I’ve only managed to catch myself doing this once, and it was when thinking about the possibility that I would never get married. Who knows what else I’ve got, though.)
[Commenting guidelines: At least one line of poetry per comment.]
I’m the reader who wrote the quoted piece under the “STORIES” tab on TYMC. I’ve been tuning every day for about a month and a half. I didn’t get a huge amount object level value (tension and stress reduction) from TYMC, probably because I already maintained a pretty low baseline stress and tension levels. But nonetheless I got a lot of meta-value from learning, and found the instructions pretty straightforward to do. I’m wondering what you think needs more clarification or detail, and I’d love to help you figure the skill out if I can.
Note: I’m not squirrel, I don’t have as much experience with tuning and I’d defer to him for these things, but another perspective can be useful.
Note-note: Given the opening of your comment, I just realized my comment could come across as me asking for money. That is 100% not what I’m trying to imply. I just really like BWT and want to help more people learn the skills, I’ve found them all really helpful in one way or another.
Edit: Alas mine own heart aches for the sadness I have brought
Shame I feel and deep at that and wringing hands lest they stay clasped
I hold the door and shut it fine for I drink my sorrow like cheap old wine
Thanks for the offer! I think last time I checked that page relax all your muscles hadn’t been written yet and I was getting sort of lost navigating all the links around the subskills / prerequisites I needed. Next time I have time I’ll start there and we’ll see what happens.
Squirrel, if you’re reading this, I will straight up pay you money to finish fleshing out tune your motor cortex, because I’m super intrigued but wary that I’ll mess up horribly or just waste a lot of time if I misinterpret things at the current level of detail. We can work out details via PM.
I think CoZE and Focusing are both much more relevant to epistemic rationality than most people who aren’t CFAR staff are explicitly modeling. They’re both tools for helping you approach thinking about the things that you can’t think about because you get suspiciously forgetful and sleepy whenever you try, or consistently find your attention wandering away from, which could include, for example, the reality of existential risk. IDC is even more about this, as is Leverage’s CT charting (it might have evolved / have a different name now, I’m not up to date).
(You should be suspicious if you think you don’t have anything like this; the whole point of getting suspiciously forgetful and sleepy and having your attention wander is that you can’t tell afterwards. Blindspots are really serious business. Another lesson you can learn from circling when done right.)
(I’ve only managed to catch myself doing this once, and it was when thinking about the possibility that I would never get married. Who knows what else I’ve got, though.)
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
I’m the reader who wrote the quoted piece under the “STORIES” tab on TYMC. I’ve been tuning every day for about a month and a half. I didn’t get a huge amount object level value (tension and stress reduction) from TYMC, probably because I already maintained a pretty low baseline stress and tension levels. But nonetheless I got a lot of meta-value from learning, and found the instructions pretty straightforward to do. I’m wondering what you think needs more clarification or detail, and I’d love to help you figure the skill out if I can.
Note: I’m not squirrel, I don’t have as much experience with tuning and I’d defer to him for these things, but another perspective can be useful.
Note-note: Given the opening of your comment, I just realized my comment could come across as me asking for money. That is 100% not what I’m trying to imply. I just really like BWT and want to help more people learn the skills, I’ve found them all really helpful in one way or another.
Edit: Alas mine own heart aches for the sadness I have brought
Shame I feel and deep at that and wringing hands lest they stay clasped
I hold the door and shut it fine for I drink my sorrow like cheap old wine
But I, being poor, have only my dreams, so I spread them beneath your feet.
Why do you trample on my dreams?
The Art God demands poetry!
Thanks for the offer! I think last time I checked that page relax all your muscles hadn’t been written yet and I was getting sort of lost navigating all the links around the subskills / prerequisites I needed. Next time I have time I’ll start there and we’ll see what happens.
Also: