LESSWRONG
LW

215
Ben (old)
54520
Message
Dialogue
Subscribe

Posts

Sorted by New

Wikitag Contributions

Comments

Sorted by
Newest
No wikitag contributions to display.
No posts to display.
Pair Debug to Understand, not Fix
Ben (old)8y50

Yes! I often put this lesson down in my top three most useful things learned at CFAR.

In the pair debugging sessions, if I came up with a solution to my partner's problem, straight up presenting the solution rarely worked (it was often wrong in some way, and then we were conversationally a bit stuck). However, when I asked leading questions around where I thought the solution could be (e.g. "Is there a way to remove subproblem X?"), they found it themselves, or sometimes better solutions.

I now make it my goal to understand their problem and its different parts, rather than to solve it, and this allows they themselves to generate the best solutions.

Reply
Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0
Ben (old)8y20

That's a really neat idea.

Being able to sort by some of those would also be helpful (e.g. Sort comments by 'exceptional insight', don't show me comments with >2 'overly aggressive'.)

You mentioned an alternative comment structure in the features post. Some of the value of that could be achieved by a 2nd tier vote saying a comment is a key consideration (e.g. "This is a crux"), and being able to sort by that.

Reply