pdf23ds comments on Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks - Less Wrong

70 Post author: HughRistik 07 October 2009 04:35PM

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Comment author: pdf23ds 07 October 2009 10:36:37PM 3 points [-]

Hmm. My intuition is that Flow is no more or less than intimate familiarity with a repertoire of tasks/procedures/heuristics used to reliably solve scoped problems. Do you think Flow could be applied to, e.g., piano performance? What about debugging programs? "Flow" as used in wider culture could certainly be applied that way.

The difficulty of communicating/teaching many procedures and heuristics is the problem with trying to taskify dating advice, IMO.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 October 2009 03:40:38AM 4 points [-]

I agree - "flow" happens to masters who have taskified the process and practiced it so many times that it becomes procedural rather than declarative knowledge.

Comment author: LauraABJ 09 October 2009 01:32:11AM 1 point [-]

Yes. This can definitely be done with sex/romance, but it seems that many people want everything to work perfectly the first time... Sorry folks.

Comment author: CronoDAS 08 October 2009 07:02:14AM 2 points [-]

Do you think Flow could be applied to, e.g., piano performance?

I've experienced the state called "flow" when playing the piano, so consider this a big. fat, YES.

You are talking about the same thing I'm talking about, right?