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kenzi10

Here's a writeup on the Asana blog about Inner Simulator, based on a talk CFAR gave there a few years ago.

kenzi10

What parts of this thought-space are you still most confused about?

kenzi30

I've found it interesting to ask the question "if I could have any goals, then what goals would I have?" - gut-checking this with various forms of button test.

kenzi40

It's tricky to navigate this in the context of a class (which the person won't be able to re-take later, if they do step out). Outside of classes the opportunity cost is less stark, but it's not always easily afforded by the workshop environment / spatial layout.

One possible way to address this that's under discussion is adding (for example) an hour right after lunch which is "quiet time" where folks are encouraged to nap, journal, go over notes, exercise, meditate etc.

0ChristianKl
There nothing stoping the person from taking the workshop again in the future and then not dropping out. If price is the concern, maybe CFAR can give rebates for people who want to take the workshop a second time. It's also a possibility that a lower teacher-student ratio could also CFAR to price the workshop in a way that would allow more people to retake it. I don't think that the case. On a workshop like this chatting with someone between classes can be often more valuable than the specific content covered in a class. The opportunity cost of not engaging into a chat with a fellow workshop participant is harder to estimate beforehand. I don't see a reason why you have to mark that hour as quite time. Some people might prefer to chat others might prefer to be quite. There no reason that everyone has to do the same thing.
0Vaniver
Mmm. This seems like an okay plan, but it doesn't hit the root of the problem, which is that the marginal unit of social interaction at the workshop is high value. Someone who did take the hour to journal instead of interact with other participants would probably be making a mistake, even if they're starting to get agitated from too much social interaction. The only ways to make them more introvert-friendly in that sense that I can think of is to make them shorter or longer, neither of which seem like good ideas for economic reasons. Short workshops that occur regularly in one location targeted at locals- basically, the old idea of a rationality dojo- seem like it's worth considering again, but I don't see a way to extend that beyond SF and NY very easily.
kenzi20

Nope, you're not the only one. Yikes! Thanks for the heads up, we'll look into it.

kenzi340

My guess is that asking LWers actually is a good way to generate title ideas, because we already know what the book is about; then Luke can go try a bunch of them on non-LWers and figure out which ones don't turn off everyone else.

kenzi190

Hey; we (CFAR) are actually going to be running a shuttles from SFO Thursday evening, since the public transit time / drive time ratio is so high for the April venue. So we'll be happy to come pick you up, assuming you're willing to hang out at the airport for up to ~45 min after you get in. Feel free to ping me over email if you want to confirm details.