I certainly don’t think we’re “there yet,” but it seems somewhat uncharitable to say that nothing ended up happening. I also don’t think the final stage of rationality practice/training will look like a martial arts dojo in almost any respect.
I’m sorry, but creating subreddits is too trivial a task that would bootstrap this specific advancement to overlook. The only way to offset this oversight is if the administrators were trying to perform some kind of “test” to see if the community can work around the problem, but that’s really stretching it. I fault the entire system regardless. I suppose I don’t disagree that it is somewhat uncharitable, but the advancements that have been made aren’t …
Looking over your submission history, I can see what’s happening here. You are advancing and improving, and writing posts about it, with those posts being received well, but the reception is far from effective. There are any number of psychological tendencies in place to cause you to inaccurately project your own advancements onto your peers. The truth is Eliezer_Yudkowsky has already embedded a ton of these lessons in the sequences over and over again. You’re stating them more formally and circling the deeper ubiquitous causes of specific individual opinions here and there, but you’ve yet to make the post that resonates with the community and starts breaking some of the heavier cognitive barriers in place whose side-effects you’ve been formalizing.
It’s all well and good, you’re doing well, and your effort is paying off, and the community is advancing. Some of us are just getting really impatient with how slowly LessWrong refines itself in the immediate presence of so much rationality optimizing knowledge.
I honestly expected my comments back here three years in the past to go unnoticed for some time. That people still pay attention to these events is surprising. That you took the time to reply was surprising, and while I recognized your name as the author of one of the recent LessWrong-advancing posts, I didn’t properly think of the full implications until now. As long as you’re paying attention across time, I might as well point out to you that nobody else is. I was going to focus on getting this article bumped tomorrow, but if you are already here now, I might as well simply suggest you start thinking about an article about visiting the past posts of LessWrong.
I was going to focus on getting this article bumped tomorrow, but if you are already here now, I might as well simply suggest you start thinking about an article about visiting the past posts of LessWrong.
I’d suggest that you go along with this anyway—while I have an article in the works that deals with some of these matters, it won’t be forthcoming for some time.
My own attempt at an article would be something vastly different, encompassing issues in such a way that article revival (anti-forgetfulness) would be a more apparent issue in need of being addressed. That’s just one aspect in a deeper pool of cognitive shortcomings that I aim to empty significantly. But first I need to acquire a more detailed picture of exactly what set of biases exist in that pool, so as to trip only the ones that produce a productive pattern of thought when activated. More or less, I need to (l)earn the karma.
Article/thought re-ignition is simply an immediate and (presumably) “easily” communicable step that would produce powerful results; this community is sitting on a gold mine of cognition just waiting to be used.
I certainly don’t think we’re “there yet,” but it seems somewhat uncharitable to say that nothing ended up happening. I also don’t think the final stage of rationality practice/training will look like a martial arts dojo in almost any respect.
I’m sorry, but creating subreddits is too trivial a task that would bootstrap this specific advancement to overlook. The only way to offset this oversight is if the administrators were trying to perform some kind of “test” to see if the community can work around the problem, but that’s really stretching it. I fault the entire system regardless. I suppose I don’t disagree that it is somewhat uncharitable, but the advancements that have been made aren’t …
Looking over your submission history, I can see what’s happening here. You are advancing and improving, and writing posts about it, with those posts being received well, but the reception is far from effective. There are any number of psychological tendencies in place to cause you to inaccurately project your own advancements onto your peers. The truth is Eliezer_Yudkowsky has already embedded a ton of these lessons in the sequences over and over again. You’re stating them more formally and circling the deeper ubiquitous causes of specific individual opinions here and there, but you’ve yet to make the post that resonates with the community and starts breaking some of the heavier cognitive barriers in place whose side-effects you’ve been formalizing.
It’s all well and good, you’re doing well, and your effort is paying off, and the community is advancing. Some of us are just getting really impatient with how slowly LessWrong refines itself in the immediate presence of so much rationality optimizing knowledge.
I honestly expected my comments back here three years in the past to go unnoticed for some time. That people still pay attention to these events is surprising. That you took the time to reply was surprising, and while I recognized your name as the author of one of the recent LessWrong-advancing posts, I didn’t properly think of the full implications until now. As long as you’re paying attention across time, I might as well point out to you that nobody else is. I was going to focus on getting this article bumped tomorrow, but if you are already here now, I might as well simply suggest you start thinking about an article about visiting the past posts of LessWrong.
I’d suggest that you go along with this anyway—while I have an article in the works that deals with some of these matters, it won’t be forthcoming for some time.
Karma Score: −8
My own attempt at an article would be something vastly different, encompassing issues in such a way that article revival (anti-forgetfulness) would be a more apparent issue in need of being addressed. That’s just one aspect in a deeper pool of cognitive shortcomings that I aim to empty significantly. But first I need to acquire a more detailed picture of exactly what set of biases exist in that pool, so as to trip only the ones that produce a productive pattern of thought when activated. More or less, I need to (l)earn the karma.
Article/thought re-ignition is simply an immediate and (presumably) “easily” communicable step that would produce powerful results; this community is sitting on a gold mine of cognition just waiting to be used.