I really like the idea that Prune gradually pushes your skills down and makes them implicit in your Babble. It feels something like if your Prune allows stuff through, your Babble goes back and retrains on that stuff and eventually you start just Babbling what you wanted, no filter necessary. It seems retroactively obvious that this is how the exact adversarial training works.
I also definitely see what you’re saying about Rao, my experience of reading him is roughly similar to my experience reading Moldbug in that I end up Pruning some small subset that feels extraordinarily insightful without having the energy to understand the main arc of the argument.
I really like the idea that Prune gradually pushes your skills down and makes them implicit in your Babble. It feels something like if your Prune allows stuff through, your Babble goes back and retrains on that stuff and eventually you start just Babbling what you wanted, no filter necessary. It seems retroactively obvious that this is how the exact adversarial training works.
I also definitely see what you’re saying about Rao, my experience of reading him is roughly similar to my experience reading Moldbug in that I end up Pruning some small subset that feels extraordinarily insightful without having the energy to understand the main arc of the argument.