Dear Normal_Anomaly, I thank you for the kindness and tone of your answer. Could I upvote it I would.
I’m aware of the existence of the sequences but it’s still not quite what I mean.
The sheer size of them detracts a lot from their usefulness and there seems to be no organization.
What I mean was some kind of page where one could self or externally assess and then based on his shortcomings be directed to adequate pages.
Then adequate assessment of the state of these elements and links based on this organization (so, adding mindware would link to probability theory, logic, the virtue of scholarship; fixing corrupted mindware would link to debiasing, dissolving the question; and so forth) [based on lukeprog’s “A cognitive Science of Rationality”].
This is just a model of how it could be, just a way of organizing it. Which is what appears to be missing, organization.
It’s true that LessWrong could have more focus on catering to newcomers as opposed to catering to people who’ve been here for months; which is to be expected when most content (posts and wiki) are made by long-timers.
I guess the best approach for newcomers for now is just to show up and talk to people (like what you’re doing now!) - not as smoothly organized as having a formal system, but at least it’s a self-correcting process that adapts to the quirks and interests of people better than a pre-programmed self-assessment system could!
Dear Normal_Anomaly, I thank you for the kindness and tone of your answer. Could I upvote it I would. I’m aware of the existence of the sequences but it’s still not quite what I mean. The sheer size of them detracts a lot from their usefulness and there seems to be no organization.
What I mean was some kind of page where one could self or externally assess and then based on his shortcomings be directed to adequate pages.
So something like: To Win you must:
-Add mindware -Fix corrupted mindware -Fix cognitive miserliness
Then adequate assessment of the state of these elements and links based on this organization (so, adding mindware would link to probability theory, logic, the virtue of scholarship; fixing corrupted mindware would link to debiasing, dissolving the question; and so forth) [based on lukeprog’s “A cognitive Science of Rationality”].
This is just a model of how it could be, just a way of organizing it. Which is what appears to be missing, organization.
Cheers
It’s true that LessWrong could have more focus on catering to newcomers as opposed to catering to people who’ve been here for months; which is to be expected when most content (posts and wiki) are made by long-timers.
I guess the best approach for newcomers for now is just to show up and talk to people (like what you’re doing now!) - not as smoothly organized as having a formal system, but at least it’s a self-correcting process that adapts to the quirks and interests of people better than a pre-programmed self-assessment system could!