Eliezer Yudkowsky: See, if I’d noticed myself doing anything remotely like that, I’d go back, figure out which steps of thought were actually performing intrinsically necessary cognitive work, and then retrain myself to perform only those steps over the course of 30 seconds.
I wouldn’t mind seeing an annotated narrative or description of what that process of distilling a habit down into the parts which do the cognitive heavy lifting looks like
This seems critical. The description given is very vague relative to actual cognitive steps that could happen for specific conclusions. How anyone could “retrain” themselves in 30 seconds is something different than what we usually mean by training.
I interpreted “retrain myself to perform only those steps over the course of 30 seconds” to mean that after training for n seconds/minutes/hours, he could solve an equivalent problem in 30 seconds (via the distilled steps). You seem to interpret it to mean that the training takes 30 seconds, and the length of time to solve the problem after training is unspecified.
I don’t know which it is, the wording seems ambiguous.
I wouldn’t mind seeing an annotated narrative or description of what that process of distilling a habit down into the parts which do the cognitive heavy lifting looks like
This seems critical. The description given is very vague relative to actual cognitive steps that could happen for specific conclusions. How anyone could “retrain” themselves in 30 seconds is something different than what we usually mean by training.
Eliezer wrote The 5-Second Level.
If you identify a bad 5-Second step, 30 seconds give you six training runs where you can go through the step to train it.
I interpreted “retrain myself to perform only those steps over the course of 30 seconds” to mean that after training for n seconds/minutes/hours, he could solve an equivalent problem in 30 seconds (via the distilled steps). You seem to interpret it to mean that the training takes 30 seconds, and the length of time to solve the problem after training is unspecified.
I don’t know which it is, the wording seems ambiguous.
I would also like to see this. As it is, I’m not sure what the OP is even describing. (As noted in a sibling comment, description is very vague.)