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I recently saw a tweet that asked GPT, what micro skills a person should master. I asked Claude a similar question, though had preloaded the conversation with “things a modern day Aristotle would teach a 24yo student”.
I think this is probably a valuable exercise to undertake yourself. I’m providing my prompt, and Claude’s response as an ‘appetiser’ to get you interested in this task.
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Prompt Wonderful. Now Let's think less utilized by society. What are some more niche micro skills that you would want a person who you are tutoring to have. And this is given that you want them to be as successful as possible.
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Claude Let me think deeply about valuable micro skills that are often overlooked but can create significant advantages in life...
- Cold Reading & Behavioral Analysis
- Understanding micro-expressions
- Picking up on subtle vocal tone changes
- Recognizing behavioral patterns in groups
- Reading body language clusters rather than isolated gestures
- This isn't about manipulation, but rather developing deeper empathy and understanding
- Strategic Silence & Information Management
- Knowing when not to speak
- Understanding information asymmetry
- The power of selective disclosure
- Using thoughtful pauses in conversation
- The art of asking rather than telling
- Scenario Planning & Secondary Consequence Analysis
- Ability to see 3-4 moves ahead in decisions
- Understanding cascade effects
- Identifying hidden risks and opportunities
- Planning for both success and failure scenarios
- Recognition of system dynamics
- Social Capital Accounting
- Understanding relationship networks
- Tracking favors and obligations implicitly
- Building genuine reciprocity
- Recognition of social momentum
- Understanding status games without playing them
- Energy Management & Recovery Tactics
- Understanding personal energy patterns
- Quick recovery techniques between intense tasks
- Environmental design for optimal performance
- Micro-rest optimization
- State switching abilities
- Pattern Recognition Across Domains
- Transferring insights between unrelated fields
- Spotting emerging trends early
- Recognition of historical rhymes
- Understanding cyclic behaviors
- Identifying underlying principles
- Meta-Learning Optimization
- Learning how you specifically learn best
- Creating personal knowledge management systems
- Information synthesis techniques
- Retention optimization
- Skill transfer mechanisms
- Probabilistic Thinking & Calibration
- Understanding base rates
- Recognizing cognitive biases in real-time
- Bayesian updating in daily life
- Risk assessment calibration
- Decision journaling
- Attention Direction & Management
- Understanding attention as a finite resource
- Strategic ignorance
- Focus maintenance techniques
- Context switching optimization
- Signal-to-noise ratio improvement
- Time Perception Management
- Understanding psychological time vs clock time
- Managing time horizons
- Chronotype optimization
- Timeline compression and expansion techniques
- Personal tempo awareness
Would you like me to elaborate on any of these? I find them fascinating because they're rarely taught explicitly yet can be transformative when mastered. I'm curious which ones resonate most with you?
These skills compound over time and create second-order advantages that aren't immediately obvious to others. They're also relatively timeless - they worked in ancient Athens and still work today.
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1Professional filmmaker and animator here. I’m willing to donate some of my time (~10-20h) to help create visuals for this project (Should you be in need of that). Happy to send through examples of work if DMed.
Also, what did you shoot on? Netflix used to have a list of camera requirements. I’m not sure if they still hold to them.
1I imagine a character (Alice) is constantly used as the rational actor in scenarios. We make Alice a likeable character, give her a personality, a series of events and decisions that lead her to the present.
Then, when the user has been around for a sufficient amount of time. Alice starts to slip. She makes mistakes that harm others, perhaps she has disputes with ‘Stupidus’, Maybe she just begins to say untrue things.
How long will it take a user to pry themself out of the rose tinted glasses, and update on Alice?
I took a university class that based the names of the Veritasium video. Drew and Gun. They rhyme with system 1&2.
I really loved Dr Stone. It gave me the feeling that the science as magic sequences gave me. A deep appreciation for reality and the power it brings an individual to understand it deeply. I really hope to have more rationalists watch it in future.
I also recommend “Science fell in love, so I tried to prove it” for stats nerds. And “My Hero Academia” as the main character embodies “Tsuyoku Naritai!”
1If I had sufficient funds. I would consider if it would be beneficial to invade a few subreddits, and offer $1000 to whoever can make the most viral meme that subtly teaches basic concepts of AI Doom.
This thought stems from a comment on “The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay”. I have more thoughts, but not much time. If my reasoning is unclear I apologise.
Yep! If I think about those 10 people, 5 are having, or I expect to have large impact on the future. As for ages, all the people I thought of except one were over 20. There was one 14yo who is just naturally super high G.
I like what you’re doing trying to do here. I think this is important work.
I’m a bit confused at what you mean by Layperson though? These are good for the ‘every day’ above average intelligence ‘switched on’ type of individual.
But that is not what I image a Layperson as. I interact regularly with ~100 people. (For context, I am a Drama Teacher and Trivia Host)
I thought about how many I predict could understand these examples, given 20 seconds of their attention. I thought of 10 people. The other 90% would fall into a few other categories that all end with them not being more knowledgeable after coming across the text.
But am I confused? Was that 90% not the target audience?
I was recently ease-dropping on a loud phone conversation. A man, maybe late 40s? Had been cheated on. He was angry. He was arguing with his girlfriend.
I noticed that all he argued the way people argue in movies. “Put yourself in my shoes”, “No, you listen to me!”, “I thought you would be the one!”. It hurt to listen to someone in pain.
A few weeks later, I was in a heated discussion with some Non-Rationalist friends. Long story short, I failed to output correct emotional signals, which was making them upset. I noticed the same thing in them. Copying the way people argue on social media. It felt ‘Therapy Culture’ for lack of a better descriptor.
But then I noticed myself. Do you remember when Sam Altman went on world tour? Doing tens of interviews. I watched every one of those. And that is now how I speak in arguments. I think this sounds like a bad thing. Because of what we now know about Sam. But I personally trusted him when he spoke back then.
The moral is, you are what you consume. Be careful.
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I asked for further details on the 10th point and Claude listed a bunch of stuff I’ve absolutely never heard of. I’d say it’s probably related to meditation if I had to guess. Here’s that.
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This skill set is particularly valuable because most people are unconscious of how their time perception affects their decisions and experiences. Mastering it gives you significant advantages in:
Would you like me to elaborate on any particular aspect? Or shall we explore how this connects with some of the other micro-skills we discussed?