You’re right, of course. I didn’t think that through. There haven’t been any good “gain the habit of really thinking things through” exercises for a Skill-of-the-Week post, have there?
“Recognizing when you’ve actually thought thoroughly” is the specific failure mode I’m thinking of; but that’s probably highly correlated with recognizing when to start thinking thoroughly.
I feel like such a skill may be difficult to consciously train without a tutor:
Rice’s theorem will tell you that you cannot, without already knowing unknown unknowns, determine which knowledge is safe to ignore.
-- @afoolswisdom
Besides, in the prediction-hash case, they may well not post right away.
Yes, the first thing I thought of was Quirrel’s hashed prediction; but it doesn’t seem that everyone’s forgotten yet, as of last month.
You’re right, of course. I didn’t think that through. There haven’t been any good “gain the habit of really thinking things through” exercises for a Skill-of-the-Week post, have there?
Bear in mind that it’s often not worth the effort. I think the skill to train would be recognizing when it might be.
Besides, in the prediction-hash case, they may well not post right away.
“Recognizing when you’ve actually thought thoroughly” is the specific failure mode I’m thinking of; but that’s probably highly correlated with recognizing when to start thinking thoroughly.
I feel like such a skill may be difficult to consciously train without a tutor:
-- @afoolswisdom
Yes, the first thing I thought of was Quirrel’s hashed prediction; but it doesn’t seem that everyone’s forgotten yet, as of last month.