malcolmocean comments on Rationality is about pattern recognition, not reasoning - LessWrong

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Comment author: malcolmocean 28 May 2015 11:39:19PM 0 points [-]

This seems valuable—I'm interested in helping (will email).

I want to highlight that "communicating how to do it" might not make sense as a frame. Pattern-matching is closely related to chunking. Ctrl+F yields other people who've mentioned chess, so I'll just point at that and then note that we actually know exactly how to communicate the skill of chunking chessboards: you get the person to practice chess in a certain way. There are of course better and worse ways to do this, but it seems like rather than looking for an insight to communicate you want to look for a learning process and how to make it more efficient by (e.g.) tightening feedback loops.