For example, beating Baldi's Basics on the first try, without any prior knowledge of the game. It's a game widely known to be very difficult. What sort of mental tools could they use to do that?
It's an important question to me since it can feel like you're completely blind on important and complex goals in life, unable to know for sure whether any of your actions are even helping.
And obviously we want to have more instrumental rationality...
For example, beating Baldi's Basics on the first try, without any prior knowledge of the game. It's a game widely known to be very difficult. What sort of mental tools could they use to do that?