I think that while the community in general has a large amount of declarative information. A very small amount of it is actually put into procedural format. We have repertoires of information and expertise, we can do some really cool things with our minds when we properly use them. However, we are missing a curriculum. We are missing a centralized place where a repository of literally all the most useful information lies. We have no textbook. We have pieces like Hammertime which try to amend some of this with daily exercises and motivational blurbs to reinforce actual practice. We have thesequences, which do a good job of laying down epistemic hygiene and probabilistic thinking. But even the sequences still failed in certain ways. There are few practice problems, there are few guided opportunities to attempt what you just read. We have certain groups like CFAR’s rationality checklist (imo only really covers epistemic hygiene) and the applied cannon. But these are not sufficient.
Jeez that was stressful. I went about 32 seconds over the time limit, but cutting off mid-sentence sounded like a bad time
Also, links were only added after I finished.
Also also, this is not a literal endorsement of my beliefs about the state of rationality. That was an attempt for me to push as much of this idea out of my head as possible in five minutes, so there’s probably [75%] going to be some bad wording or misrepresentation or straight up falsity. But that was my best shot.
I think despite your disclaimers it was a great idea well worth expressing (although it’s essentially applause lights in the comments section of Hammertime). Hopefully this updates you towards pushing out your ideas first and asking questions later. =)
Most important idea huh?
Here goes nothin’..
I think that while the community in general has a large amount of declarative information. A very small amount of it is actually put into procedural format. We have repertoires of information and expertise, we can do some really cool things with our minds when we properly use them. However, we are missing a curriculum. We are missing a centralized place where a repository of literally all the most useful information lies. We have no textbook. We have pieces like Hammertime which try to amend some of this with daily exercises and motivational blurbs to reinforce actual practice. We have the sequences, which do a good job of laying down epistemic hygiene and probabilistic thinking. But even the sequences still failed in certain ways. There are few practice problems, there are few guided opportunities to attempt what you just read. We have certain groups like CFAR’s rationality checklist (imo only really covers epistemic hygiene) and the applied cannon. But these are not sufficient.
Jeez that was stressful. I went about 32 seconds over the time limit, but cutting off mid-sentence sounded like a bad time
Also, links were only added after I finished.
Also also, this is not a literal endorsement of my beliefs about the state of rationality. That was an attempt for me to push as much of this idea out of my head as possible in five minutes, so there’s probably [75%] going to be some bad wording or misrepresentation or straight up falsity. But that was my best shot.
I think despite your disclaimers it was a great idea well worth expressing (although it’s essentially applause lights in the comments section of Hammertime). Hopefully this updates you towards pushing out your ideas first and asking questions later. =)