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 10:42:36PM 3 points [-]

Skill: Other introspection / reflectiveness. (Catchall for internal self-knowledge habits that don't go elsewhere.)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2011 10:45:38PM 4 points [-]

Subskill: Notice new judgments and ask about them. E.g., "Huh, I have a bad feeling about this person cleaning this apartment."

  • Perceptually notice the new judgment, emotion, or intuition.
  • Put a box around it, that is, try to describe what you just felt in verbal language, to promote it to primary awareness.
  • Wonder where the feeling came from - search for internal causes.
  • Ask about the reference class - the general reliability of 'feelings like this'.