A role-playing game where the instructor plays a management consultant whose advice is impressive-sounding but contentless bullshit, and where the class has to force the consultant to be specific and concrete enough to be either wrong or trivial.
People were encouraged to make a habit of saying “can you give an example?” in everyday conversation. I practiced it a lot.
IIRC, Eliezer taught the class in May 2012? He talks about the relevant skills here and here. And then I ran it a few times, and then CFAR dropped it; I don’t remember why.
CFAR used to have an awesome class called “Be specific!” that was mostly about concreteness. Exercises included:
Rationalist taboo
A group version of rationalist taboo where an instructor holds an everyday object and asks the class to describe it in concrete terms.
The Monday-Tuesday game
A role-playing game where the instructor plays a management consultant whose advice is impressive-sounding but contentless bullshit, and where the class has to force the consultant to be specific and concrete enough to be either wrong or trivial.
People were encouraged to make a habit of saying “can you give an example?” in everyday conversation. I practiced it a lot.
IIRC, Eliezer taught the class in May 2012? He talks about the relevant skills here and here. And then I ran it a few times, and then CFAR dropped it; I don’t remember why.