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Yes, participating in it, it kinda felt like that!
I remember in at least 1 document, people actually came up with the meta-strategy that you mention at the end and wrote it out in the doc!
Personally, I felt that beyond just organizing the information, it was helpful if the steps to solving the problem were broken down into self-contained problems, each of which doesn't need understanding of the full problem. This wasn't always possible (e.g. understanding where a bug is often requires understanding both the problem and implementation), but when it happened I think it really helped with progress.
I actually participated in the original relay experiment described here as one of the players, and this seems like a good place to share my experience with it.
The format of the iterative collaboration with different people felt a lot like collaborating with myself across time, when I might drop a problem to think about something else and then come back to it. If I haven't taken the right notes on what I tried and (crucially) what I should do next, I have to pay a tax in time and mental resources to figure out what I did.
It was interesting to experience it in this case, as the combination of the... (read more)
It seems that people are focused a lot on the visualization as a tool for removing biases, rather than as a tool for mapping biases. Indeed, visualizations can have value as a summary tool rather than as a way to logically constrain thinking.
Some examples of such visualizations:
In these kinds of visualizations, you get a different way to look at the problem which may appeal to a different sense. I can already see value in this as a way to summarize biased thought.
That said, I do agree with the... (read more)
I agree that at first glance, it may seem like advertising, but it is different in quite a few ways:
Really, I see nothing wrong with offering rational advising on a site that aims to improve human rationality.
In what year would more than 30% of US adults own a device whose primary interaction mode is through augmented reality (such as google glass or the rumored apple AR glasses)?