Jasen comments on Rationality Boot Camp - Less Wrong

73 Post author: Jasen 22 March 2011 08:37AM

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Comment author: Jasen 22 March 2011 09:26:02PM 9 points [-]

Congrats indeed!

We'll definitely be writing up a detailed curriculum and postmortem for internal purposes and I expect we'll want to make most if not all of it publicly available.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 March 2011 10:36:48AM 4 points [-]

I hope that everyone who takes part is encouraged to write about their experience, whether the boot camp turns out to be useful for them or not.

I think it's tempting (commitment bias? not wanting to confront a halo effect?) to not talk about it when one and the the people around one have put a good bit of effort into something, and it doesn't work well for some of the people doing it. However, this can include really valuable information.

One thing I'm curious about for the boot camp is how quickly people can learn this sort of material. What's the mix between "that hurts, I don't have to do it any more" and "that's a major revision of personality, and it takes down time to make sense of it and/or grow the necessary neurons"?