I’ve reread portions of the Sequences, and have derived notable additional value from it. Particularly fruitful at one point (many years ago) was when I reread a bunch of the “Map and territory” stuff (Noticing Confusion; Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions; Fake Beliefs) while substituting in examples of “my beliefs about myself” in place of all of Eliezer’s examples—because somehow that was a different domain I hadn’t trained the concepts on when I read it the first time.
I plan to probably do more such exercises soon. I’ve found “check where my trigger-action patterns are and aren’t matching the normative patterns suggested by the Sequences, and design exercises to investigate this” pretty useful in general, and its been ~5 years since I’ve done it, which seems time for a re-do.
I’ve reread portions of the Sequences, and have derived notable additional value from it. Particularly fruitful at one point (many years ago) was when I reread a bunch of the “Map and territory” stuff (Noticing Confusion; Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions; Fake Beliefs) while substituting in examples of “my beliefs about myself” in place of all of Eliezer’s examples—because somehow that was a different domain I hadn’t trained the concepts on when I read it the first time.
I plan to probably do more such exercises soon. I’ve found “check where my trigger-action patterns are and aren’t matching the normative patterns suggested by the Sequences, and design exercises to investigate this” pretty useful in general, and its been ~5 years since I’ve done it, which seems time for a re-do.
I’d love to see exercises for “Lonely Dissent”.