Did the experiment happen? Based on your other posts, it looks like you also switched to a different kind of plan. Is it because you thought it wasn’t good, or because there wasn’t enough buy-in? I’m wondering, because I want to ponder with my Non-Trivial research team whether the problem you faced is something we might be able to solve while learning from your attempts.
(tl;dr: I’d be pretty interested in hearing more about your research team, and what your goals and bottlenecks are)
Parts of the experiment happened. I am currently evaluating how it’s gone so far. It’s been ~2 years, during which I think I’ve put maybe 6-7 months of serious fulltime effort into the project.
I turned the ideas here into a workshop, which I ran 6 times for ~4 people on average.
I ran 6 workshops and iterated on curricula. The workshops were not really in a form I expected to work that well (only a few days, where I think it takes a couple weeks to have a real shot at forming new habits).
The first workshop, I charged $200, and at the time people said it was worth $800 on average, and 6 months later people said on average $1100 (but with some people saying it ended up not really be valuable). I’m currently trying to get 6-month followup data from the 2nd and 3rd workshop, but it’s looking like that one is on track to get rated lower.
I’m currently mulling over whether to try and run a 1-month program that starts off with something like my workshop, where you then go on to do a month of research with frequent checkins about your metacognitive practices. It’s not a slam dunk to do so, given my AI timelines and how much iteration it seems likely is necessary to get this working well.
Some particularly relevant posts for The Story So Far:
My shortform on the distinction between “Feedback-loop-first-rationality” (a process for inventing rationality practices), and “Fractal Metastrategy” (the rationality practice I developed for day-to-day use, guided by feedbackloop-first rationality)
Did the experiment happen? Based on your other posts, it looks like you also switched to a different kind of plan. Is it because you thought it wasn’t good, or because there wasn’t enough buy-in? I’m wondering, because I want to ponder with my Non-Trivial research team whether the problem you faced is something we might be able to solve while learning from your attempts.
(tl;dr: I’d be pretty interested in hearing more about your research team, and what your goals and bottlenecks are)
Parts of the experiment happened. I am currently evaluating how it’s gone so far. It’s been ~2 years, during which I think I’ve put maybe 6-7 months of serious fulltime effort into the project.
I turned the ideas here into a workshop, which I ran 6 times for ~4 people on average.
I ran 6 workshops and iterated on curricula. The workshops were not really in a form I expected to work that well (only a few days, where I think it takes a couple weeks to have a real shot at forming new habits).
The first workshop, I charged $200, and at the time people said it was worth $800 on average, and 6 months later people said on average $1100 (but with some people saying it ended up not really be valuable). I’m currently trying to get 6-month followup data from the 2nd and 3rd workshop, but it’s looking like that one is on track to get rated lower.
I’m currently mulling over whether to try and run a 1-month program that starts off with something like my workshop, where you then go on to do a month of research with frequent checkins about your metacognitive practices. It’s not a slam dunk to do so, given my AI timelines and how much iteration it seems likely is necessary to get this working well.
Some particularly relevant posts for The Story So Far:
Rationality Research Report: Towards 10x OODA Looping? (my 6-month afterwards writeup)
The Cognitive Bootcamp Agreement (gives a sense of how the workshops
My self-review of this post.
My shortform on the distinction between “Feedback-loop-first-rationality” (a process for inventing rationality practices), and “Fractal Metastrategy” (the rationality practice I developed for day-to-day use, guided by feedbackloop-first rationality)