patrissimo comments on Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality - Less Wrong

105 Post author: patrissimo 14 September 2010 04:17PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 14 September 2010 04:57:19PM 17 points [-]

One simple improvement would be to add exercises at the end of articles whenever possible, and to encourage people to do them before or instead of reading the comments.

Comment author: patrissimo 15 September 2010 06:00:09AM 4 points [-]

I've been collecting exercises (slowly) for years. Would love to contribute to a shared collection of exercises, ideally on a site that allows them to be tagged, rated, searched, and have people comment with their experiences.

I am skeptical that people reading fun shiny LW posts and encountering an exercise would actually then go do that exercise. Doing exercises is work!

Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 September 2010 04:38:50PM *  3 points [-]

I am skeptical that people reading fun shiny LW posts and encountering an exercise would actually then go do that exercise. Doing exercises is work!

Bring on the Work! I would be very interested in seeing rationality exercises posted, including the ones you've been collecting.

Comment author: cypher197 01 January 2013 03:22:13AM 0 points [-]

Where can I find rationality exercises?

Comment author: Nisan 01 January 2013 06:00:01PM 1 point [-]

The Center for Applied Rationality is currently collecting and developing rationality exercises and training people with them. They have not published a list of their exercises, but you can find a game they made here.