Culpability "wait am I responsible for the pareto depth thing" "Yes." t. Jollybard essay theme: https://soundcloud.com/jollybard/gigantopithecus The self is the landlord of the mind Beliefs should pay rent in anticipated experience. Everyone knows this by now, we've already turned out the pockets of the laziest and most impoverished ideas, the...
Everything is getting better all the time: Prelude JB:Later, Garfunkel's father bought him a wire recorder and from then on, Garfunkel spent his afternoons singing, recording, and playing it back, so he could listen for flaws and learn how to improve. heh R:This appears to be one of the patterns...
Everyone has fascinations and pleasures, but only a limited time alive to indulge in them.
If you know that you can expect to grow in potential, capability, power in almost any area of life if you set your attentions to it, you must be left with the problem of "what do I intend to make of myself?".
This is a very serious question with very serious implications😅
If you're a person who wanders, uncertain what project deserves the most attention and resources next, maybe you can use "gatekeeping" as a tool to sharpen your mind.
If you feel lost, alone, and tribeless, maybe "gatekeeping" is a silly or counterproductive diversion for you, and ought to be... (read more)
"wait am I responsible for the pareto depth thing"
"Yes." t. Jollybard
essay theme: https://soundcloud.com/jollybard/gigantopithecus
Beliefs should pay rent in anticipated experience.
Everyone knows this by now, we've already turned out the pockets of the laziest and most impoverished ideas,
the freeloaders in this informational class struggle have been evicted long ago.
If we're the land barons of our own minds, why stop at just a little power?
Taking this idea further, preferences should pay rent just as much as beliefs.
But what can a preference 'pay'?
There are different competing constructions for the 'fat baker'. Naturally, I prefer mine.
One could go:"Never... (read 204 more words →)
JB:Later, Garfunkel's father bought him a wire recorder and from then on, Garfunkel spent his afternoons singing, recording, and playing it back, so he could listen for flaws and learn how to improve.
heh
R:This appears to be one of the patterns for all the skills
DA:hmm
should that entire conversation about 'everyone getting better at everything all at once' be a blog post
JB:the primordial skill is noticing
DA:or posted to lesswrong actually
R:A blog post, at least
DA:it feels like it was a useful product of the chat channel and should be saved
JB:do you feel like writing it
or would you just copypaste the convo
DA:maybe, will anyone read it?
JB:i think so
I feel like there's a very serious risk of turning a 'broad rationalist movement' reaction, feeding on PARC adjacent extreme-aspirationals and secreting 'rationalists' into a permanently capped out minor regional cult by just deciding to move somewhere all avowed 'rationalists' choose.
I doubt most 'rationalists' or even most of the people who are likely to contribute to the literature of a rationalist movement have yet been converted to a specific sort of tribal self-identification that would lead them to pick up roots and all go to the same place at one time.
"Let's all leave and pick somewhere obscure" seems a lot more like a way for a movement that has decided to gracefully and deliberately coordinate self-annihilation than a strategy for growth.
time to crash this party
unfortunate problems:
this list of topics is legitimately too big.
nobody can try to cover all of it in a reasonable amount of time.
possible solutions:
the general patterns of 'skip (lazy evaluate) prerequisites and audit classes' is good, but the best thing you can do if you want to keep up with ai research is to directly court mentors who are well-established in this field.
and to trust those mentors to give you the personal guidance you individually need the most in order to make the most rapid progress you can.
this pattern is extremely valuable and more-or-less obsoletes individual recommendations in terms of literature or conceptual categories. i'm a lakoffian, and will... (read more)