Personally, I am still eagerly waiting for CFAR to release more of their methods and techniques. A lot of them seem to be already part of the rationalist diaspora’s vocabulary—however, I’ve been unable to find descriptions of them.
For example, you mention “TAP”s and the “Inner Simulator” at the beginning of this article, yet I haven’t had any success googling those terms, and you offer no explanation of them. I would be very interested in what they are!
I suppose the crux of my criticism isn’t that there are techniques you haven’t released yet, nor that rationalists are talking about them, but that you mention them as though they were common knowledge. This, sadly, gives the impression that LWers are expected to know about them, and reinforces the idea that LW has become a kind of elitist clique. I’m worried that you are using this in order to make aspiring rationalists, who very much want to belong, come to CFAR events, to be in the know.
I’ve said it elsewhere, but wringing your hands and crying “it’s because of my akrasia!” is definitely not rational behavior; if anything, rationalists should be better at dealing with akrasia. What good is a plan if you can’t execute it? It is like a program without a compiler.
Your brain is part of the world. Failing to navigate around akrasia is epistemic failure.