Like, the one from youtube. But not the sexy model one. I do modeling, but it’s all on a computer.
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In my Obsidian.md vault I use the note aliases to point out to myself when I’ve said something that indicates that I Am Confused. I’ve progressively added and pruned this over a year. Here are the “Confusion Phrases” that I currently use.
aliases: I am confused, I don’t understand, This is confusing, This is very confusing, I am quite confused, Wait what, I don’t know where I fucked up, I Feel Confused, I notice I am Confused, I’m confused, I don’t get it, I just don’t get it, How am I meant to, How do I understand this, That’s surprising, I’m not sure I understand, I’m completely lost, I’m lost, you lost me, I have no idea what’s going on, what are they even trying to say, what are they trying to say, what is she trying to say, what is he trying to say, I’m lost for words, I can’t wrap my head around this, I can’t get my head around, I’m struggling to make sense of, I guess I just forgot about, IDK, I don’t get,
Kinda related: I was inspired by the Fooming Shoggoths to make a song based on the original Your Strength as a Rationalist post a while ago. Here’s that song.
Much appreciated!
I’ll:
Correct that typo
Add a section back in to hopefully make it less confusing
I decided to create this tag for two reasons:
The concept of LLM Psychology is interesting and exciting to me
I have progressively seen more people referring to a type of research as LLM Psychology. I think having a place specifically for it on LW is useful.
If you reply to this comment with posts you think fit under this tag, I’ll read them and decide if they seem like they should be here. I’m currently quite fuzzy on what really belongs in this tag. Clarification on what you think LLM Psych is would be much appreciated.
My timelines have now updated to something closer to fast takeoff. In a world like this, how valuable is educating the general public? Claude claims science started worrying about the climate in the 50s/60s. It wasn’t until 2010s that we saw meaningful action beginning to take place. Do we have the time to educate?
To be clear, this is more of a question than an opinion that I hold. I am working to form an opinion.
In reference to o3 right? Comparing it to just before the 2020 pandemic started?
As in “Something large is about to happen and we are unprepared”?
I really loved Dr Stone. Excited to read this review and hear what other Rationalists think of it. I was kinda desperate for more Anime/Manga that teaches or inspires a love of science. Here are my recommendations:
Science Fell in Love so I tried to Prove it (Anime, Focuses on a computer science lab, a whole bunch of statistics)
Cells at work (Anime, more for kids, but tried to teach you about cells in the human body.)
The Manga Guide to _____ Series (Manga, I’ve read most of the statistics book. Though it’s from 2004 and about frequentest stats. I have liniar algebra and CPUs, but haven’t read them so far. They seem like also very fun books.)
And.… that’s kinda it that I’ve found. Nothing matches up to those. Would really love other recommendations!
Still working my way through this post. But this section gets me excited!
If the Receiver or Giver has high enough skills in one area, they can probably compensate for the other having lower skills, although there’s probably some minimum threshold needed for each.
It conjures the image of a future occupation. A conduit. Someone skilled at giving and receiving. Brought in specifically to speed up this type of knowledge pass over between two people.
I may be an outlier here. But if I thought I was going to be assassinated, I would think of:
JFK -MLK
James A. Garfield
Lincoln
Franz Ferdinand
And from these I’d think “Hu, better buy a bullet proof vest”.
I would unfortunately not think about ‘Being Suicided’, unless I had an expectation that it would occur in this way.
I liked this post and will find use for it in the work I do.
In my experience, repeating a name out loud, or doing some other visible memory trick. Is a good way to signal trying to remember names. Then, if later you forget you are more easily forgiven.
Thank you for your help and excellent comment!
Omg. Oops! I completely forgot about custom instructions and memory! I’ll run some more trials with those off. Thank you very much for pointing this out.
Hu. That is extremely useful. Thank you.
I’ve got a lot of singing out of AVM. While my current method works well for this, I find it more challenging than eliciting harmful outputs.
I’m not entirely sure why, but I find it trivial to get GPT-4o to output harmful content in advanced voice mode (AVM), given that it doesn’t have a direct content filter on it e.g. NSFW.
In the span of 30 minutes it gave me 1) instructions to make a pipe bomb to attach to a car. And 2) Instructions on how to leak a virus into the public without detection (avoiding saying more on this).
I have a theory as to why it might be easy for me specifically. But I would like to know if this is the experience that others have with AVM?
Thought: Confidently saying “(X) has no Manhattan Project”. Is forgetting how secret the Manhattan Project was.
If I’ll probably see them again, I don’t miss people. I thought people saying they miss you were just being overly polite.
I asked for further details on the 10th point and Claude listed a bunch of stuff I’ve absolutely never heard of. I’d say it’s probably related to meditation if I had to guess. Here’s that.
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Claude Let me break down Time Perception Management into its deeper components, as this is one of the most subtle yet powerful micro-skills...
Understanding Psychological Time vs Clock Time
How different mental states alter time perception
Flow states can make hours feel like minutes
Anxiety can make minutes feel like hours
Learning to intentionally shift between time perspectives
When to use event-based time vs clock-based time
How to enter “timeless” states for creative work
Reading your internal clock
Understanding your natural rhythms
Recognizing when time perception is distorted by emotions
Managing Time Horizons
Developing multiple concurrent time frames
Thinking in day/month/year/decade simultaneously
Balancing immediate tasks with long-term vision
Time horizon switching
When to zoom out to years
When to zoom in to minutes
How to maintain strategic clarity while handling tactics
Future-self continuity
Techniques for making future consequences feel real
Building strong mental connections to your future self
Chronotype Optimization
Understanding your natural energy patterns
Peak creative hours
Peak analytical hours
Recovery periods
Designing your life around your chronotype
When to schedule different types of work
How to handle obligations that fight your natural rhythm
Seasonal adjustments
Adapting to changing daylight
Modifying routines for different seasons
Timeline Compression and Expansion Techniques
How to make time feel longer when needed
Breaking experiences into smaller chunks
Increasing novelty to slow perceived time
Using attention to expand moments
How to make time feel shorter when beneficial
Chunking similar tasks
Creating flow states
Using routine to speed through necessary tasks
Personal Tempo Awareness
Understanding your natural pace
Speaking tempo
Walking pace
Decision-making speed
Tempo matching and mismatching
When to match others’ tempo
When to intentionally mismatch
How to set the tempo in group situations
Rhythm management
Creating sustainable work rhythms
Building in recovery cycles
Recognizing when to speed up or slow down
Advanced Applications:
Using time perception in negotiations
Creating or relieving time pressure
Understanding how others perceive time
Memory engineering
Making good times feel longer in memory
Making difficult times feel shorter in memory
Social time management
Managing group time perception
Creating shared time experiences
Decision timing
Understanding when to decide quickly vs slowly
Recognizing optimal timing windows
This skill set is particularly valuable because most people are unconscious of how their time perception affects their decisions and experiences. Mastering it gives you significant advantages in:
Personal productivity
Emotional regulation
Strategic planning
Social influence
Life satisfaction
Would you like me to elaborate on any particular aspect? Or shall we explore how this connects with some of the other micro-skills we discussed?
I recently saw a tweet that asked GPT, what micro skills a person should master. I asked Claude a similar question, though had preloaded the conversation with “things a modern day Aristotle would teach a 24yo student”.
I think this is probably a valuable exercise to undertake yourself. I’m providing my prompt, and Claude’s response as an ‘appetiser’ to get you interested in this task.
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Prompt Wonderful. Now Let’s think less utilized by society. What are some more niche micro skills that you would want a person who you are tutoring to have. And this is given that you want them to be as successful as possible.
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Claude Let me think deeply about valuable micro skills that are often overlooked but can create significant advantages in life...
Cold Reading & Behavioral Analysis
Understanding micro-expressions
Picking up on subtle vocal tone changes
Recognizing behavioral patterns in groups
Reading body language clusters rather than isolated gestures
This isn’t about manipulation, but rather developing deeper empathy and understanding
Strategic Silence & Information Management
Knowing when not to speak
Understanding information asymmetry
The power of selective disclosure
Using thoughtful pauses in conversation
The art of asking rather than telling
Scenario Planning & Secondary Consequence Analysis
Ability to see 3-4 moves ahead in decisions
Understanding cascade effects
Identifying hidden risks and opportunities
Planning for both success and failure scenarios
Recognition of system dynamics
Social Capital Accounting
Understanding relationship networks
Tracking favors and obligations implicitly
Building genuine reciprocity
Recognition of social momentum
Understanding status games without playing them
Energy Management & Recovery Tactics
Understanding personal energy patterns
Quick recovery techniques between intense tasks
Environmental design for optimal performance
Micro-rest optimization
State switching abilities
Pattern Recognition Across Domains
Transferring insights between unrelated fields
Spotting emerging trends early
Recognition of historical rhymes
Understanding cyclic behaviors
Identifying underlying principles
Meta-Learning Optimization
Learning how you specifically learn best
Creating personal knowledge management systems
Information synthesis techniques
Retention optimization
Skill transfer mechanisms
Probabilistic Thinking & Calibration
Understanding base rates
Recognizing cognitive biases in real-time
Bayesian updating in daily life
Risk assessment calibration
Decision journaling
Attention Direction & Management
Understanding attention as a finite resource
Strategic ignorance
Focus maintenance techniques
Context switching optimization
Signal-to-noise ratio improvement
Time Perception Management
Understanding psychological time vs clock time
Managing time horizons
Chronotype optimization
Timeline compression and expansion techniques
Personal tempo awareness
Would you like me to elaborate on any of these? I find them fascinating because they’re rarely taught explicitly yet can be transformative when mastered. I’m curious which ones resonate most with you?
These skills compound over time and create second-order advantages that aren’t immediately obvious to others. They’re also relatively timeless—they worked in ancient Athens and still work today.
Professional filmmaker and animator here. I’m willing to donate some of my time (~10-20h) to help create visuals for this project (Should you be in need of that). Happy to send through examples of work if DMed.
Also, what did you shoot on? Netflix used to have a list of camera requirements. I’m not sure if they still hold to them.
I imagine a character (Alice) is constantly used as the rational actor in scenarios. We make Alice a likeable character, give her a personality, a series of events and decisions that lead her to the present.
Then, when the user has been around for a sufficient amount of time. Alice starts to slip. She makes mistakes that harm others, perhaps she has disputes with ‘Stupidus’, Maybe she just begins to say untrue things.
How long will it take a user to pry themself out of the rose tinted glasses, and update on Alice?
This isn’t an extremely useful technique. What it really does for me is break me out of undirected thinking with my writing and get me to actively start thinking things like “ok, but why would this be happening?”
I think 75% of the time it’s not helpful. Sometimes unhelpful when breaking a flow.
I’m working on thinking things faster. Though, it’s not a skill I’d say I have yet.
However, it’s pretty low cost for any payoff at all.