Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Examples of Rationality Techniques adopted by the Masses - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 June 2014 03:23:54AM 1 point [-]

Paper. Calendars. Smartphones. Asking other people for advice.

Comment author: edanm 15 June 2014 09:20:19AM 0 points [-]

Isn't that just technological progress? Except for asking people for advice, nothing else there changes how people think, so it's hard to call it a rationality technique IMO.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 16 June 2014 04:21:02AM 3 points [-]

I totally disagree! Paper is an amazing tool for changing how people think: it gives them an external source of working memory!