I enjoyed this quite a bit. Vision is very important in sports as well, but I hadn’t thought to apply it to other areas, despite generally being into applying sports lessons to research (i.e. https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/film-study/).
In sports, you have to choose between watching the person you’re guarding and watching the ball / center of play. Or if you’re on offense, between watching where you’re going and watching the ball. Eye contact is also important for (some) passing.
What’s most interesting is the second-level version of this, where good players watch their opponent’s gaze (for instance, making a move exactly when the opponent’s gaze moves somewhere else). I wonder if there’s an analog in video games / research?
I love the film study post, thanks for linking! This all reminds me of a “fishbowl exercise” they used to run at the MIRI Summer Fellows program, where everyone crowded around for half an hour and watched two researchers do research. I suppose the main worry about transporting such exercises to research is that you end up watching something like this.
I enjoyed this quite a bit. Vision is very important in sports as well, but I hadn’t thought to apply it to other areas, despite generally being into applying sports lessons to research (i.e. https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/film-study/).
In sports, you have to choose between watching the person you’re guarding and watching the ball / center of play. Or if you’re on offense, between watching where you’re going and watching the ball. Eye contact is also important for (some) passing.
What’s most interesting is the second-level version of this, where good players watch their opponent’s gaze (for instance, making a move exactly when the opponent’s gaze moves somewhere else). I wonder if there’s an analog in video games / research?
I love the film study post, thanks for linking! This all reminds me of a “fishbowl exercise” they used to run at the MIRI Summer Fellows program, where everyone crowded around for half an hour and watched two researchers do research. I suppose the main worry about transporting such exercises to research is that you end up watching something like this.