I’ve still been pondering it, but some feedback I got on this made me question the utility of this meditative/introspective angle—or at least, pause to see what I thought about it after letting it sit. Also, almost all the answers I got on my practice-of-rationality sequence question were, like, new posts to write rather than existing posts to curate into a sequence, which makes the job harder—ideally I’d be mostly collecting existing material that fit the flavor, rather than writing everything from scratch. I’m still interested in thoughts on the utility of this direction and what should go into such a sequence.
I can make a longer comment there if you’d like but personally I wasn’t that bothered by the dreams example because I agreed with you that confabulation in the immediate moments after I woke up didn’t seem like a huge issue. As a result, I was definitely interested in seeing more posts from the meditative/introspective angle even if they just expanded upon some of these moment-to-moment habits with more examples and detail. Unfortunately, that would at least partly require writing more posts rather than pure curation.
Yeah, it’s not that I’m averse to writing a sequence like that, but separately, I feel like there should have already been some content of this kind (and I’d like help finding it to curate it)?
Maybe now that a lot of things have been tagged, I can explore related tags to look for it :3
I’ve started trying to sketch out what else could go in a sequence like this.
Makes sense—would some of the early posts about Focusing and other “lower level” concepts you reference here qualify? If you create a tag, people (including maybe me) could probably help curate!
Did you ultimately decide not to continue this series?
I’ve still been pondering it, but some feedback I got on this made me question the utility of this meditative/introspective angle—or at least, pause to see what I thought about it after letting it sit. Also, almost all the answers I got on my practice-of-rationality sequence question were, like, new posts to write rather than existing posts to curate into a sequence, which makes the job harder—ideally I’d be mostly collecting existing material that fit the flavor, rather than writing everything from scratch. I’m still interested in thoughts on the utility of this direction and what should go into such a sequence.
I can make a longer comment there if you’d like but personally I wasn’t that bothered by the dreams example because I agreed with you that confabulation in the immediate moments after I woke up didn’t seem like a huge issue. As a result, I was definitely interested in seeing more posts from the meditative/introspective angle even if they just expanded upon some of these moment-to-moment habits with more examples and detail. Unfortunately, that would at least partly require writing more posts rather than pure curation.
Yeah, it’s not that I’m averse to writing a sequence like that, but separately, I feel like there should have already been some content of this kind (and I’d like help finding it to curate it)?
Maybe now that a lot of things have been tagged, I can explore related tags to look for it :3
I’ve started trying to sketch out what else could go in a sequence like this.
Makes sense—would some of the early posts about Focusing and other “lower level” concepts you reference here qualify? If you create a tag, people (including maybe me) could probably help curate!