Leading people to lesswrong on average makes them scoff then add things to their stereotype cache.
You often say things with a certain simple realism that jives with me. I’ve definitely learned to appreciate the style more since I joined LW, and 10 times moreso since really absorbing a few subskills of a few SingInst folk. How much social psychology-like stuff have you studied? I get a weak impression that it’s not much more than the average LW regular but that unlike the average LW regular you have the good habit of regularly explicitly talking about (and thus assuredly explicitly thinking about) certain simple but oft-ignored phenomena of standard social epistemology—or perhaps they’d generally be better described as signalling games/competitions with an epistemic flavor. The very-related skill of “being constantly up a meta level” is really the only prerequisite skill for building the master-skill of being able to automatically immediately generate decent models of any real or imagined social epistemic scenario or automatically with-some-effort generate thorough complex models. You strike me as one of the people on LW who could build up this skill and make it a very sharp weapon, which would be generally useful to any community or organization in the coming years that is trying to raise its sanity waterline. (Vladimir_M also obviously has some kind of related skillset.)
I could link you to a concrete example or two in LW comments if you don’t quite follow what skill it is I’m getting at or how it’s cool.
You often say things with a certain simple realism that jives with me. I’ve definitely learned to appreciate the style more since I joined LW, and 10 times moreso since really absorbing a few subskills of a few SingInst folk. How much social psychology-like stuff have you studied? I get a weak impression that it’s not much more than the average LW regular but that unlike the average LW regular you have the good habit of regularly explicitly talking about (and thus assuredly explicitly thinking about) certain simple but oft-ignored phenomena of standard social epistemology—or perhaps they’d generally be better described as signalling games/competitions with an epistemic flavor. The very-related skill of “being constantly up a meta level” is really the only prerequisite skill for building the master-skill of being able to automatically immediately generate decent models of any real or imagined social epistemic scenario or automatically with-some-effort generate thorough complex models. You strike me as one of the people on LW who could build up this skill and make it a very sharp weapon, which would be generally useful to any community or organization in the coming years that is trying to raise its sanity waterline. (Vladimir_M also obviously has some kind of related skillset.)
I could link you to a concrete example or two in LW comments if you don’t quite follow what skill it is I’m getting at or how it’s cool.
Quite a lot but it is not specialised (into PUA etc). I’ve also probably forgotten a lot, since my interest peaked a few years back.