This idea is cool, but it’s probably secretly terrible. I have limited familiarity with the field and came up with it after literally twenty minutes of thinking? My priors say that it’s either already been done, or that it’s obviously flawed.
Clearly, the outside view is that most graduate students who have this kind of professional disagreement with an advisor are mistaken and later, regretful [5].
Is it really? Geoff Hinton thinks the future depends on some graduate student who is deeply suspicious of everything he says.
So this week’s advice is obvious advice, but useful nonetheless: find a way to gain a reflex to actually do all the obvious preparation, before undertaking a new task or making a big decision.
I’ve read (and apparently internalized) this, but I forgot to cite it! Yet another post illustrating why Nate is my favorite author when it comes to instrumental rationality.
Awesome story!
Related post on “obvious” ideas.
Is it really? Geoff Hinton thinks the future depends on some graduate student who is deeply suspicious of everything he says.
That suspicious grad student will be an outlier compared with all the others, who are still likely to be mistaken.
I’ve read (and apparently internalized) this, but I forgot to cite it! Yet another post illustrating why Nate is my favorite author when it comes to instrumental rationality.