There aren’t things lying around in my life that bother me because I always notice and deal with it.
I assume he said something more nuanced and less prone to blindspots than that.
Ten minutes a day is 60 hours a year. If something eats 10 minutes each day, you’d break even in a year if you spent a whole work week getting rid of it forever.
In my experience, I have not been able to reliably break even. This kind of estimate assumes a kind of fungibility that is sometimes correct and sometimes not. I think When to Get Compact is relevant here—it can feel like my bottleneck is time, when in fact it is actually attentional agency or similar. There are black holes that will suck up as much of our available time as they can.
External memory is essential to intelligence augmentation.
Highly plausible. Also perhaps more tractrable and testable than many other avenues. I remember an old LW Rationality Quotation along the lines of, “There is a big difference between a human and human with a pen and paper.”
I assume he said something more nuanced and less prone to blindspots than that.
I think this is pretty close to what he said. I suspect he’d have some nuances if we drilled down into it.
This involves speculation on my part, but having known Critch moderately well, I’d personally bet that he has something like 10x to 30x fewer things lying around bothering him than most people (which maybe comes in waves where, first he had 10x fewer things lying around bothering him, then he set more ambitious goals for himself that created more bothersome things, then he fixed those, etc)
He probably does still have blindspots but I think the effect is real.
A non-rationalist friend of mine spontaneously said one thing he appreciates about me is that I vibe “taking action against problems”. This is from a guy I already estimate to have much higher than average agency. Part of that vibe in me is directly traceable to Raemon, and probably some other part is to rationalist community as a whole. So when Raemon says this about Critch I believe him.
In my experience, I have not been able to reliably break even. This kind of estimate assumes a kind of fungibility that is sometimes correct and sometimes not. I think When to Get Compact is relevant here—it can feel like my bottleneck is time, when in fact it is actually attentional agency or similar. There are black holes that will suck up as much of our available time as they can.
Yeah this sounds like a real/common problem, and dealing with that somehow seems like a necessary piece for this whole process to work.
I assume he said something more nuanced and less prone to blindspots than that.
In my experience, I have not been able to reliably break even. This kind of estimate assumes a kind of fungibility that is sometimes correct and sometimes not. I think When to Get Compact is relevant here—it can feel like my bottleneck is time, when in fact it is actually attentional agency or similar. There are black holes that will suck up as much of our available time as they can.
Highly plausible. Also perhaps more tractrable and testable than many other avenues. I remember an old LW Rationality Quotation along the lines of, “There is a big difference between a human and human with a pen and paper.”
I think this is pretty close to what he said. I suspect he’d have some nuances if we drilled down into it.
This involves speculation on my part, but having known Critch moderately well, I’d personally bet that he has something like 10x to 30x fewer things lying around bothering him than most people (which maybe comes in waves where, first he had 10x fewer things lying around bothering him, then he set more ambitious goals for himself that created more bothersome things, then he fixed those, etc)
He probably does still have blindspots but I think the effect is real.
There are many things that bother me that I can’t fix because someone else prefers them the way they are.
A non-rationalist friend of mine spontaneously said one thing he appreciates about me is that I vibe “taking action against problems”. This is from a guy I already estimate to have much higher than average agency. Part of that vibe in me is directly traceable to Raemon, and probably some other part is to rationalist community as a whole. So when Raemon says this about Critch I believe him.
Yeah this sounds like a real/common problem, and dealing with that somehow seems like a necessary piece for this whole process to work.