Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Open Thread, January 16-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 January 2013 07:31:39AM 15 points [-]

I just returned from the CFAR workshop! Would people be interested in a top-level Discussion post about this?

Comment author: arundelo 30 January 2013 05:07:34AM 5 points [-]

Hi Qiaochu! This is Aaron!

Here's something I wrote about it on Facebook:

It was great. My mind was blown 5 or 10 times a day.

I'll write more about this, but until I do here's one example of the type of stuff I learned:

There is a big difference between a) thinking about a list of pros and cons to something, and b) actually writing the list ON PAPER (or a computer screen). (It's also important to keep listing stuff after it stops popping right in your head. There are tricks that help with this.)

Another example: Sometimes people get in arguments with you not because they disagree with something you did but because they are afraid you don't care about them.

I also made a lot of new friends. It was fun!

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 January 2013 04:11:46PM 4 points [-]

I'd be interested. My guess is that other LWers would be, too.

Comment author: ahartell 29 January 2013 07:49:20AM 2 points [-]

I would.