LessWrong team member / moderator. I've been a LessWrong organizer since 2011, with roughly equal focus on the cultural, practical and intellectual aspects of the community. My first project was creating the Secular Solstice and helping groups across the world run their own version of it. More recently I've been interested in improving my own epistemic standards and helping others to do so as well.
Now they aren't :) This is a case where I think the review's sort of caught the development process in amber.
I'm not sure I understand what the topic is, but, flagging that you are encouraged to edit posts during the Review to make the better, more timeless versions of themselves.
I dunno, @sarahconstantin do you remember?
(I'm also curious what @Eliezer Yudkowsky thinks of this post, for that matter, if he's up for it)
I don't actually know for sure.
The thing I think he meant was "he trains (over a longish period of time, or at least more than 30 seconds) to perform only the essential steps (in 30 seconds)". That's at least what I'm aiming at. (I'm setting the less ambitious initial goal of "~15 minutes.")
This essay doesn't actually focus much on the followup "drill yourself until you can actually do the steps in [30 seconds / 15 minutes]" because it feels early stage enough that I'm not quite sure which things make most sense to drill.
Although now that I draw my attention to that I think I should maybe be prioritizing the followup drilling harder. I'm trying to have more Purposeful Practice be part of my life but it's labor-intensive.
Mod note: This was a post I was on the fence about approving as a first post. I think it some sense the post is "fine", but I didn't expect it to fair well on LessWrong (mostly for not asking or answering questions that the LessWrong community finds particularly interesting, in a way that the LessWrong community thinks are likely to be helpful).
I don't currently have a good cached idea on how to handle posts in that reference class. (Especially given that I don't have to really read post in much detail)
Interested in takes from both LW users, (and the author Jacob Peterson for what they think they would have preferred)
Apologies to Jacob Peterson for the awkwardness of using your post as an example.
Someone pointed out that I didn't really explain how "identify all the constraints" fit into "think it faster". I added another piece to the Example section to tie it back together more.
Mod note: I frontpaged this. It was a bit of an edge case because we normally don't frontpage "organizational announcements", but, I felt like this one had enough implicit models that I'd feel good reading it in a couple years, whether or not MIRI is no longer doing this particular strategy.