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Being levels above in rationalism means doing rationalist practice 101 much better than others as much as being a few levels above in fighting means executing a basic front-kick much better than others.
I regret that I only have one upvote to give this comment.
That's why we've given you a karmic wake, brother.
The technical term is bro.
Bro as in Kamina.
We should perhaps formalize norms for upvoting based on this kind of comment. In any case, I'm doing so. And then going back to read the context to make sure I agree.
I find that the increased attention given to the context combined with the positive priming is more than enough.
In this case, however I am finding that the comment backfired. It is Kaj's comment, not lessdazed's. Lessdazed's comment isn't bad as an independent observation but does miss the point of its parent. This means Eliezer's "upvote MOAR" comment is a red herring and I had to downvote it and lessdazed in responsed where I would otherwise have left it alone.
I have an idea...(begins writing discussion post draft)
You could instead make a post more explicitly about how rationality is a set of skills that must be trained. I keep trying to get this into people's heads but you are in a much better position to do so than I am, and it's an important thing to be aware of. Like, really important.
(I always end up making analogies to chess or guitar, perhaps you could make analogies to computer programming?)