Having a clear explanation of what I feel is a core skill for collective rationality: actually integrating the evidence and models that others have.
Including the sentence “Don’t practice coming to agreement; practice exchanging models” which succinctly summed up the core idea and is easy to remember.
Having pretty pictures!
How this post could have been improved even further:
The first time that I looked at this, I semi-automatically started skimming and didn’t properly read everything; I had to come back and consciously make myself read everything. I’m not entirely sure of what caused it, but I suspect it had to do with the way that the post contained images and then often only had a brief quote and one or two sentences before the next image; something about this combination made my brain parse it as “there’s a bit of stuff between the pictures but it probably isn’t very important since there’s so little of it”, even though that was the actual substantial content.
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Having a clear explanation of what I feel is a core skill for collective rationality: actually integrating the evidence and models that others have.
Including the sentence “Don’t practice coming to agreement; practice exchanging models” which succinctly summed up the core idea and is easy to remember.
Having pretty pictures!
How this post could have been improved even further:
The first time that I looked at this, I semi-automatically started skimming and didn’t properly read everything; I had to come back and consciously make myself read everything. I’m not entirely sure of what caused it, but I suspect it had to do with the way that the post contained images and then often only had a brief quote and one or two sentences before the next image; something about this combination made my brain parse it as “there’s a bit of stuff between the pictures but it probably isn’t very important since there’s so little of it”, even though that was the actual substantial content.