It seems to me very similar to some old lw post I have seen about being there some very easy, but very powerful technique (it had also said that it is equivalent of some iirc basketball technique/throw), which is “thinking before doing” or more precisely “visualizing what will likely happen before doing”. Because you didn’t mention it I suppose you didn’t read—unfortunately I failed to find it even using Grok, maybe someone other have read it?
I generally agree that it is very useful. Though I personally try not to ask any questions, but just visualize. Also humans do have natural ability to do that, those automatic anticipations, for example when I think about asking Grok for something often in my imagination automatically pops up a rough picture of its reply which follows some unpleasant pattern and so I drop the idea with disappointment. Unfortunately that happens almost fully outside of focus of attention and very quick and far from always—usually tied to you feeling pain in the past so you flinch from it and/or after many repeats.
I mostly try to develop those natural anticipations into more long, detailed and conscious, because it feels to me like they have some elegant aspect which my intentional tries in visualizing future lack.
It seems to me very similar to some old lw post I have seen about being there some very easy, but very powerful technique (it had also said that it is equivalent of some iirc basketball technique/throw), which is “thinking before doing” or more precisely “visualizing what will likely happen before doing”. Because you didn’t mention it I suppose you didn’t read—unfortunately I failed to find it even using Grok, maybe someone other have read it?
I generally agree that it is very useful. Though I personally try not to ask any questions, but just visualize. Also humans do have natural ability to do that, those automatic anticipations, for example when I think about asking Grok for something often in my imagination automatically pops up a rough picture of its reply which follows some unpleasant pattern and so I drop the idea with disappointment. Unfortunately that happens almost fully outside of focus of attention and very quick and far from always—usually tied to you feeling pain in the past so you flinch from it and/or after many repeats.
I mostly try to develop those natural anticipations into more long, detailed and conscious, because it feels to me like they have some elegant aspect which my intentional tries in visualizing future lack.