Transfer learning is dubious, doing philosophy has worked pretty well for me thus far for learning how to do philosophy. More specifically, pick a topic you feel confused about or a problem you want to solve (AI kill everyone oh no?). Sit down and try to do original thinking, and probably use some external tool of preference to write down your thoughts. Then do live or afterwards introspection on if your process is working and how you can improve it, repeat. This might not be the most helpful, but most people seem to fail at “being comfortable sitting down and thinking for themselves”, and empirically being told to just do it seems to work.
Maybe one crucial object level bit has to do with something like “mining bits from vague intuitions” like Tsvi explains at the end of this comment, idk how to describe it well.
Transfer learning is dubious, doing philosophy has worked pretty well for me thus far for learning how to do philosophy. More specifically, pick a topic you feel confused about or a problem you want to solve (AI kill everyone oh no?). Sit down and try to do original thinking, and probably use some external tool of preference to write down your thoughts. Then do live or afterwards introspection on if your process is working and how you can improve it, repeat.
This might not be the most helpful, but most people seem to fail at “being comfortable sitting down and thinking for themselves”, and empirically being told to just do it seems to work.
Maybe one crucial object level bit has to do with something like “mining bits from vague intuitions” like Tsvi explains at the end of this comment, idk how to describe it well.