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Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 18 June 2015 01:33:22AM 0 points [-]

I plan to teach students actually how to be goal oriented. It's the difference between telling people "lose weight" and specifically giving them clear instructions for how to do is. Here is an example of how I do so in a videotaped workshop.

I would like to have an experimental attitude to LW content, and will look forward to see the results of my experiments. I don't intend to do the extreme rationality stuff, and expect more of it than it can deliver. We'll see, I guess :-)