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Karmakaiser comments on What happens when your beliefs fully propagate - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: Alexei 14 February 2012 07:53AM

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Comment author: Karmakaiser 15 February 2012 02:33:37PM 5 points [-]

I'm spitballing different ideas I've used:

  • Like you said, talk to people who know the topic and find it interesting.

  • Read non technical introductory books on the topic. I found the algorithmn's part of CS interesting, but the EE dimensions of computing was utterly boring until I read Code by Charles Petzold.

  • Research the history of a topic in order to see the lives of the humans who worked on it. Humans being social creatures, may find a topic more interesting after they have learned of some of the more interesting people who have worked in that field.