chaosmosis comments on Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms - LessWrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 October 2012 09:59AM

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Comment author: chaosmosis 06 October 2012 10:48:43PM 3 points [-]

I know as a matter of process that when a respected fellow rationalist tells me that I need to become curious, I should pause and check my curiosity levels and try to increase them.

How does one increase their curiosity levels?

Comment author: robertskmiles 08 October 2012 11:59:42AM *  4 points [-]

There's a post about this.

@Eliezer Perhaps it's worth making "try to increase them" a link to lukeprog's "Get Curious" article?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 October 2012 05:25:12AM *  2 points [-]

I increase my curiosity about a topic by attending closely to what specific questions related to that topic I'm not confident I know the answer to, what predictions I would make differently given higher confidence in various different answers to those questions, and what the consequences might be of being right about those predictions.

Also, the longer I spend trying to think of such questions/predictions and failing, the more confident I become that increasing my curiosity about the topic is not a productive use of my time.