Shortform #75 Specificity, the tool that keeps on giving great results
I was reminded of the sequence, Specificity: You’re Brain’s Superpower today while utilizing what I learned from it extensively both during today’s Norfolk Rationalists meetup & tonight’s Guild of the ROSE workshop on Street Epistemology.
I’ve noticed my interest in speaking “broadly, generally, or widely” about $topics decrease significantly over the past year or two since really integrating the specificity sequence into my way of being & operating. I don’t speculate on very much anymore, and find most speculation other than “hypothesizing about $topic based on $evidence while being explicit about epistemic confidence in each presupposition leading to hypothesis” to be annoying or vacuous. Why spend my time speculating, theorizing, or hypothesizing about topics when I could simply learn more of the specifics about $topics and build a better mental model or idea about $topics. Idle speculation doesn’t seem worth the time or effort.
Shortform #75 Specificity, the tool that keeps on giving great results
I was reminded of the sequence, Specificity: You’re Brain’s Superpower today while utilizing what I learned from it extensively both during today’s Norfolk Rationalists meetup & tonight’s Guild of the ROSE workshop on Street Epistemology.
I’ve noticed my interest in speaking “broadly, generally, or widely” about $topics decrease significantly over the past year or two since really integrating the specificity sequence into my way of being & operating. I don’t speculate on very much anymore, and find most speculation other than “hypothesizing about $topic based on $evidence while being explicit about epistemic confidence in each presupposition leading to hypothesis” to be annoying or vacuous. Why spend my time speculating, theorizing, or hypothesizing about topics when I could simply learn more of the specifics about $topics and build a better mental model or idea about $topics. Idle speculation doesn’t seem worth the time or effort.