Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on collecting successes and deltas - Less Wrong

3 Post author: MartinB 22 March 2011 02:14PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 March 2011 12:03:30AM 3 points [-]

PM me with a quick description of what got fixed, maybe, never mind the gory details? ("I used to hear voices and listen to them, now I ignore them" would be an interesting data point just by itself.)

Comment author: Armok_GoB 23 March 2011 12:22:43AM 4 points [-]

There's really no way to summarise it. Even summarising the reason why it can't be summarised is beyond my ability really. Even somehting like "I used to have some extremely false beliefs and now I instead have true beliefs" don't cover it due to having helped with a bunch of other stuff to... Yea, at least as far as I can see there's no way to do it without the gory details and much narrower search criteria, and for using an idea beyond what I personally can see someone would need to know some about it anyway, making it kinda moot. The uncertainty about most things is immense to making it all even harder to communicate.

Even my summary of why I cant summarise why I can't summarise it is rambling.

Comment author: mutterc 23 March 2011 01:46:13AM 9 points [-]

I had trouble like this with inferential distance, describing my at-the-time Big Issue to my first psychiatrist:

  • Me: "I have a good life but can't enjoy it because I'm convinced the Invisible Hand is going to snatch it away anytime now."
  • Her, writing notes: "What kind of invisible hand?"
  • Me: short Adam Smith summary