Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Teachable Rationality Skills - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2011 10:13:11PM 12 points [-]

Exercise A: Have a set of hand signals describing conversational modes and use them during conversation; something along the lines of the Philosophy Referee signals only more relevant, like a hand signal meaning "You are attempting to refute what I just said" or "I am accepting that implicit premise."

Exercise B: Hand signals to describe body language, tone of voice, facial expressions.

(What other continuously changing variables would be good to learn to pay attention to?)

Comment author: wedrifid 28 May 2011 09:40:14AM 4 points [-]

along the lines of the Philosophy Referee signals

I like WilliamSTK's reply:

I think that hand motion [for Godwin's law violation] is self evident.

Comment author: taryneast 28 May 2011 09:22:58AM *  1 point [-]

Confusion-level. If everybody listening to you speak is registering high confusion. that's a sign you need to rethink (or just restructure) your current explanation.

Comment author: aausch 28 May 2011 08:46:02PM 0 points [-]

Maybe keep track of strong emotional reaction, with modifiers for how strongly it's affecting your response to the conversation

Comment author: wedrifid 28 May 2011 09:35:09AM 0 points [-]

Exercise A: Have a set of hand signals describing conversational modes and use them during conversation; something along the lines of the Philosophy Referee signals only more relevant, like a hand signal meaning "You are attempting to refute what I just said" or "I am accepting that implicit premise."

That is a brilliant idea! Have you/are you planning to develop a language of this form?