As with all good advice for thinking, I cannot tell whether this is novel or trivial or both. I’d love more examples in either case, so I can make sure I understand what you’re talking about.
As I read the post, it would also recommend (for example, duh) testing lots of life coaches, seeing whose advice performed the best in the first month, and then getting lots more advice from them. In that sense, there is something of an Explore/Exploit dynamic going on here, with a framing focusing on evaluating data sources.
As with all good advice for thinking, I cannot tell whether this is novel or trivial or both. I’d love more examples in either case, so I can make sure I understand what you’re talking about.
As I read the post, it would also recommend (for example, duh) testing lots of life coaches, seeing whose advice performed the best in the first month, and then getting lots more advice from them. In that sense, there is something of an Explore/Exploit dynamic going on here, with a framing focusing on evaluating data sources.
I think this article might be related, if you decide to write more on this: https://www.gwern.net/Modus