Woop! The final chapter (bar the conclusion)! I would promote this to Featured just for that, to let folks know it’s concluded and that you can read each excellent post in a single sitting.
However, there’s a bunch of other great things: the significance of the effects of anxious underconfidence—the damage it does to our ability to stop humanity going extinct and create a world we care about—is really valuable, and making sure I’m trying hard enough to fail regularly is important.
I found the motivating discussion regarding status regulation interesting, but I do not feel confident in the model. I especially appreicated the final remarks on it:
I’ve critiqued the fruits of modesty, and noted my concerns about the tree on which they grow. I’ve said why, though my understanding of the mental motions behind modesty is very imperfect and incomplete, I do not expect these motions to yield good and true fruits [emphasis added]. But cognitive fallacies are not invincible traps; and if I spent most of my time thinking about meta-rationality and cognitive bias, I’d be taking my eye off the ball.
Woop! The final chapter (bar the conclusion)! I would promote this to Featured just for that, to let folks know it’s concluded and that you can read each excellent post in a single sitting.
However, there’s a bunch of other great things: the significance of the effects of anxious underconfidence—the damage it does to our ability to stop humanity going extinct and create a world we care about—is really valuable, and making sure I’m trying hard enough to fail regularly is important.
I found the motivating discussion regarding status regulation interesting, but I do not feel confident in the model. I especially appreicated the final remarks on it:
For these reasons, I’ve promoted it to Featured.