If I get you right with “Cup-Stacking” you mean a skill that
everybody can learn
and easily observe
that improves by many small steps, and
can reach an unbelievable level.
And you want to extend this from visually observable motor skills to “Reflexive Involuntary Mental Motions” like argument construction and social out-dancing (best word in place of ‘manipulation’ that I came up with the help of a shoulder advisor).
Is that roughly right?
My own contribution to this is two older links from LW that seem relevant:
That’s most of it, but there’s a subtext (which your comment helped me draw out; thanks) of something like unintentional or subconscious practice. Like, at least [the skills I’ve identified in the wild so far, that caused me to create the mental category] were all sort of accidentally practiced to that unbelievable level. I didn’t set out to become a frame-maker, and my colleague didn’t set out to become a frame-breaker; the skills emerged from the incentives in our respective contexts.
Planning and scheduling skills. It is like they have a calendar with auto-reminder in their brain.
Coming up with possible explanations and answers to real or hypothetical questions (an incredible Babble).
Finding the weak point of a person to trigger them into anger or other spontaneous and thereby not thought-thru action.
The opposite of it: Finding the lever that calms down or leads to otherwise desirable action. A skill some teachers develop to manage difficult classes.
I have also observed the ones you pointed out: Immediately finding flaws in reasoning and responding to and moderating emotional reactions.
If I get you right with “Cup-Stacking” you mean a skill that
everybody can learn
and easily observe
that improves by many small steps, and
can reach an unbelievable level.
And you want to extend this from visually observable motor skills to “Reflexive Involuntary Mental Motions” like argument construction and social out-dancing (best word in place of ‘manipulation’ that I came up with the help of a shoulder advisor).
Is that roughly right?
My own contribution to this is two older links from LW that seem relevant:
Proper posture for mental arts
The Martial Art of Rationality
That’s most of it, but there’s a subtext (which your comment helped me draw out; thanks) of something like unintentional or subconscious practice. Like, at least [the skills I’ve identified in the wild so far, that caused me to create the mental category] were all sort of accidentally practiced to that unbelievable level. I didn’t set out to become a frame-maker, and my colleague didn’t set out to become a frame-breaker; the skills emerged from the incentives in our respective contexts.
Skills of this kind that I have observed:
Planning and scheduling skills. It is like they have a calendar with auto-reminder in their brain.
Coming up with possible explanations and answers to real or hypothetical questions (an incredible Babble).
Finding the weak point of a person to trigger them into anger or other spontaneous and thereby not thought-thru action.
The opposite of it: Finding the lever that calms down or leads to otherwise desirable action. A skill some teachers develop to manage difficult classes.
I have also observed the ones you pointed out: Immediately finding flaws in reasoning and responding to and moderating emotional reactions.