I’d like to ask LessWrong’s advice. I want to benefit from CFAR’s knowledge on improving ones instrumental rationality, but being a poor graduate I do not have several thousand in disposable income nor a quick way to acquire it. I’ve read >90% of the sequences but despite having read lukeprog’s and Alicorn’s sequences I am aware that I do not know what I do not know about motivation and akrasia. How can I best improve my instrumental rationality on the cheap?
Edit: I should clarify, I am asking for information sources: blogs, book recommendations, particularly practice exercises and other areas of high quality content. I also have a good deal of interest in the science behind motivation, cognitive rewiring and reinforcement. I’ve searched myself and I have a number of things on my reading list, but I wanted to ask the advice of people who have already done, read or vetted said techniques so I can find and focus on the good stuff and ignore the pseudoscience.
Completed. I’ll be fascinated to see how digit length correlates to gender default. It would imply some very interesting things about sexuality.