This makes me connect with the post the other day about research speedruns. Those posts interested me because it was a little like looking over the writer’s shoulder, and seeing how they approached the challenge. It seems to me like this could be another useful rationalist training program. I imagine I could learn from both roles, and suspect many others could too.
Yea, I think there’s some general pattern of the form:
Research is weird and mysterious.
Instead of studying research, why don’t we study the minds that do research?
But minds are equally weird and mysterious!
Ah yes, but you are yourself possessed of a mind, which, weirdly enough, can imitate other minds at a mysteriously deep level without consciously understanding what they’re doing.
This makes me connect with the post the other day about research speedruns. Those posts interested me because it was a little like looking over the writer’s shoulder, and seeing how they approached the challenge. It seems to me like this could be another useful rationalist training program. I imagine I could learn from both roles, and suspect many others could too.
Yea, I think there’s some general pattern of the form:
Research is weird and mysterious.
Instead of studying research, why don’t we study the minds that do research?
But minds are equally weird and mysterious!
Ah yes, but you are yourself possessed of a mind, which, weirdly enough, can imitate other minds at a mysteriously deep level without consciously understanding what they’re doing.
Profit.