The post was supposed to be in the spirit of much of the self-improvement posts regarding akrasia, rationality, etc. It seemed logical that managing your information is an important component with the rest of the mental hygiene practices discussed here. It I was mistaken I apologize.
There’s nothing wrong with the topic. Whether it turns out to be a good LW post probably depends on whether anyone contributes any substantially non-obvious advice.
I think the original question is valid as such, but there are tons of valid questions that could be asked in similar manner. What I think the article lacks is some insight or just some effort in trying to understand the problem more deeply. Insights don’t have to be ground-breaking, but I think articles around here should provide some value to the reader. Now it seems more like a “hey guys, what do you think of free will?” type of query.
I suspect that if you would spend some time and effort to try to pin-point the exact problem or perhaps to generalize the problem (or whatever), it might lead you into interesting insights. Let’s say through this process you come up with a heuristic or principle for this problem. If the article provided that, it might have some value to the reader and by the virtue of being more specific, it could also spark up interesting discussion. Now it just seems way too open-ended question. Not that it cannot be answered, but that it doesn’t inspire commentary.
(As an example, perhaps you could have expanded on the opening metaphor. I don’t know if it would have lead anywhere interesting, but one never knows.)
I agree and admit laziness on my part for hoping someone else to insightfully reflect on my problem instead of offering at least a minimum of a solution to start things off. Ironically, I can’t seem t make time to analyze how I can make more time!
I agree, but “normal” threads on LW are not supposed to be just normal threads.
The post was supposed to be in the spirit of much of the self-improvement posts regarding akrasia, rationality, etc. It seemed logical that managing your information is an important component with the rest of the mental hygiene practices discussed here. It I was mistaken I apologize.
There’s nothing wrong with the topic. Whether it turns out to be a good LW post probably depends on whether anyone contributes any substantially non-obvious advice.
I think the original question is valid as such, but there are tons of valid questions that could be asked in similar manner. What I think the article lacks is some insight or just some effort in trying to understand the problem more deeply. Insights don’t have to be ground-breaking, but I think articles around here should provide some value to the reader. Now it seems more like a “hey guys, what do you think of free will?” type of query.
I suspect that if you would spend some time and effort to try to pin-point the exact problem or perhaps to generalize the problem (or whatever), it might lead you into interesting insights. Let’s say through this process you come up with a heuristic or principle for this problem. If the article provided that, it might have some value to the reader and by the virtue of being more specific, it could also spark up interesting discussion. Now it just seems way too open-ended question. Not that it cannot be answered, but that it doesn’t inspire commentary.
(As an example, perhaps you could have expanded on the opening metaphor. I don’t know if it would have lead anywhere interesting, but one never knows.)
I agree and admit laziness on my part for hoping someone else to insightfully reflect on my problem instead of offering at least a minimum of a solution to start things off. Ironically, I can’t seem t make time to analyze how I can make more time!