Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Teachable Rationality Skills - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2011 09:57PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2011 10:06:45PM 8 points [-]

Skill: Mindfulness / not doing things on autopilot.

An underlying capacity that seems worth exercises to train explicitly, if we can figure out how to do that.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2011 10:19:45PM 4 points [-]

Subskill / contributing talent: Maintain a focus of attention. (Exercise: Dual N-back.)