I’ve read through your series so far, and I don’t believe your writing quality has dropped. Eliezer’s inadeuqacy sequence went from 200 to 50 karma from beginning to end, and you’ll see the same drop in views in youtube multi-part videos. I believe it’s just barrier-to-entry with each additional post in a sequence because you have to read the other ones first. Posting individual posts and then compiling them as a sequence sounds like a good solution. Have you done a Yoda timer on this yet? lol
I would like to see the dark side technique, which has been stated at Ziz’ blog here and has a basis in Nate Soares’ guilt series. Probably related to goal factoring and internal double crux just by the sound of those topics. If I was to summarize it, it’d be “Never do anything unless you know how it benefits you”
What are your experiences of the “rationalist uncanny valley”? I would assume sunk cost fallacy fallcy you mentioned, but is there anything else? For me personally, it would be “expending too much social capital for truth’s sake” and the above dark side technique. Both of these came from taking those ideas (Truth and Dark Side) seriously, actually trying them in real life, and overdoing it in wrong ways. I did learn from those experiences and am better for it, so trying, failing, learning, repeating was overall beneficial. I assume that’s what you would call the uncanny valley?
If so, to improve it would be to improve that feed-back cycle. Anything that increases trying, minimizes failing, and provides better feedback is a possible research avenue. From your own series (and a couple extra):
Increasing trying: Yoda Timers, TAPs, Aversion Factorying, Design, Dark Side
Minimizing failing/error: general biases, Actually Trying, Murphyjitsu,
Better Feedback: Bug Hunt, CoZe, Time calibration, Focusing
I’ve read through your series so far, and I don’t believe your writing quality has dropped. Eliezer’s inadeuqacy sequence went from 200 to 50 karma from beginning to end, and you’ll see the same drop in views in youtube multi-part videos. I believe it’s just barrier-to-entry with each additional post in a sequence because you have to read the other ones first. Posting individual posts and then compiling them as a sequence sounds like a good solution. Have you done a Yoda timer on this yet? lol
I would like to see the dark side technique, which has been stated at Ziz’ blog here and has a basis in Nate Soares’ guilt series. Probably related to goal factoring and internal double crux just by the sound of those topics. If I was to summarize it, it’d be “Never do anything unless you know how it benefits you”
What are your experiences of the “rationalist uncanny valley”? I would assume sunk cost fallacy fallcy you mentioned, but is there anything else? For me personally, it would be “expending too much social capital for truth’s sake” and the above dark side technique. Both of these came from taking those ideas (Truth and Dark Side) seriously, actually trying them in real life, and overdoing it in wrong ways. I did learn from those experiences and am better for it, so trying, failing, learning, repeating was overall beneficial. I assume that’s what you would call the uncanny valley?
If so, to improve it would be to improve that feed-back cycle. Anything that increases trying, minimizes failing, and provides better feedback is a possible research avenue. From your own series (and a couple extra):
Increasing trying: Yoda Timers, TAPs, Aversion Factorying, Design, Dark Side
Minimizing failing/error: general biases, Actually Trying, Murphyjitsu,
Better Feedback: Bug Hunt, CoZe, Time calibration, Focusing