Roko, even though presumably know you better than most Less Wrong users since I've met you in real life, I'm finding it very difficult to estimate your rationalist skills.
When I take an online personality test, I try to think of examples from my life that demonstrate that my personality is one way or another. It's often difficult to come up with examples, and sometimes I will come up with examples that contradict one another.
Given that it's difficult for me to come up with examples demonstrating how I am, and that I live with myself every waking hour, imagine how hard it is for me to do the same thing for you. I gave you a downvote on probability theory for having trouble explaining causality to me, and an upvote on entangling yourself with the evidence because your website says your morality changed "almost overnight" after reading The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality, but what am I supposed to do for the others? Imagine something that would demonstrate presence or lack of a characteristic and then try and figure out if you would do it?
I guess that might work. An interesting variation on this exercise would be for you to supply this action that demonstrates your strength or weakness in advance. This would make things easier on the people being surveyed and might help you interpret your results better.
Feedback appreciated. It is an experiment - we'll see what comes of it in the end!
Last time, I wrote about 11 core rationalist skills. Now I would like some help from the LW community: which of these skills am I good at, which ones am I bad at? Just to recap, the skills are:
I'll post a description of each one of these skills as a comment, and if you think I am good at that skill, vote it up. If you think I am bad at it, vote it down. Don't be too shy - even if you are biased or uncertain - because over the course of many votes, these biases and errors will cancel out to some extent. (This is the "guess the number of beans in a jar by asking 50 people to guess and taking the average" method)
EDIT: We can also comment on each rationalist skill to say how well I am doing at that skill. Later today, I will do this myself.
Thanks in advance!