I would personally love to see more cross-fertilization between that sub-community and LW, “dark arts” or no. (At least, I think I would; I don’t know the community well and might be mistaken.) We need to make contact between abstract techniques for thinking through difficult issues, and on the ground practical strategicness. Importing people who’ve developed skilled strategicness in any domain that involves actual actions and observable success/failure, including dating (or sales, or start-ups, or … ?), would be a good way to do this. If you could link to specific articles, or could create discussion threads that both communities might want to participate in, mattnewport, that would be good.
I second that. Here in the LW/OB/sci-fi/atheism/cryonics/AI… community, many of us fit quite a few stereotypes. I’ll summarize them in one word that everybody understands: we’re all nerds*. This means our lives and personalities introduce many biases into our way of thinking, and these often preclude discussions about acting rationally in interpersonal situations such as sales, dating etc. because we don’t have much experience in these fields. Anything that bridges this gap would be extremely useful.
*this is not a value judgment. And not everybody conforms to this stereotype. I know, I know, but this is not the point. I’m talking averages here.
I would personally love to see more cross-fertilization between that sub-community and LW, “dark arts” or no. (At least, I think I would; I don’t know the community well and might be mistaken.) We need to make contact between abstract techniques for thinking through difficult issues, and on the ground practical strategicness. Importing people who’ve developed skilled strategicness in any domain that involves actual actions and observable success/failure, including dating (or sales, or start-ups, or … ?), would be a good way to do this. If you could link to specific articles, or could create discussion threads that both communities might want to participate in, mattnewport, that would be good.
I second that. Here in the LW/OB/sci-fi/atheism/cryonics/AI… community, many of us fit quite a few stereotypes. I’ll summarize them in one word that everybody understands: we’re all nerds*. This means our lives and personalities introduce many biases into our way of thinking, and these often preclude discussions about acting rationally in interpersonal situations such as sales, dating etc. because we don’t have much experience in these fields. Anything that bridges this gap would be extremely useful.
*this is not a value judgment. And not everybody conforms to this stereotype. I know, I know, but this is not the point. I’m talking averages here.