The way you were talking about “self-improvement” and how this has harmed the general atmosphere on LW and such, I thought you were talking specifically about how to improve in “LW rationality kind of thing”, for which there aren’t any classes (except in some narrow sense like a cognitive bias course as part of a psychology curriculum or something). I assumed it was obvious that if you want to learn a standard skill for which there is already an established teaching method, then just go benefit from the standard teaching method. But upon a re-read I guess this was a misinterpretation.
I’m skeptical about learning LW rationality as well. HPMOR does a great job of selling it, but for practical purposes (i.e. becoming more attractive or more employable) it loses out to object-level classes.
Oh, okay.
The way you were talking about “self-improvement” and how this has harmed the general atmosphere on LW and such, I thought you were talking specifically about how to improve in “LW rationality kind of thing”, for which there aren’t any classes (except in some narrow sense like a cognitive bias course as part of a psychology curriculum or something). I assumed it was obvious that if you want to learn a standard skill for which there is already an established teaching method, then just go benefit from the standard teaching method. But upon a re-read I guess this was a misinterpretation.
I’m skeptical about learning LW rationality as well. HPMOR does a great job of selling it, but for practical purposes (i.e. becoming more attractive or more employable) it loses out to object-level classes.