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beoShaffer comments on Thoughts on the January CFAR workshop - Less Wrong Discussion

37 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 January 2013 10:16AM

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Comment author: ModusPonies 31 January 2013 10:07:40PM 7 points [-]

Upvoted for writing this before reading the main post. Is that the sort of technique they taught you?

To repeat my request to Qiaochu: would you be willing to follow up in a year or two and tell us whether the effects lasted? If you commit now, and use Boomerang to remind yourself, I would be grateful.

Comment author: beoShaffer 31 January 2013 10:32:19PM *  4 points [-]

For boring reasons I don't feel like using Boomerang to remind myself, but if you message me in a year (and I still have an active LW, and insert other obvious caveats here) I'll write the post and/or post significant comments on the retrospectives of other attendees.

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Upvoted for writing this before reading the main post. Is that the sort of technique they taught you?

Short answer yes. Long answer, it is the obvious converse of some of Julia's techniques for soliciting useful advice on the other hand they did not directly suggest it for giving good advice, and I suspect I would have thought to do it even if I had missed that session. Its a pretty obvious idea (at least to me).

Comment author: ModusPonies 01 February 2013 03:30:55PM 1 point [-]

I have set a Boomerang reminder to myself. I will ask you in a year. Thanks.