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I think there are qualia that you can't transmit with words alone. Some ideas are psychologically load-bearing and to some degree, those are the ones that you can't create with just meta-cognition because they're strongly tied to deeply emotional beliefs.

Concretely, with the example of learning to play chess, there's a point where you get good enough to beat/draw everyone in an average high school. That point is about 1500-1800 ELO. Then you'll join a chess tournament and get your ass handed to you. There's a confidence you pick up at that point of knowing... (read more)

5Raemon
So, as this post describes, I think there's basically a skill of "being good at imagination", that makes it easier to (at least) extrapolate harder from your existing experience library to new things. A skilled imagineer that hasn't advanced in a competitive game, but has gained some other kind of confidence, or suffered some kind of "reality kick to the face", can probably extrapolate to the domain of competitive games. But, also, part of the idea here is to ask "what do you actually need in order for the wisdom to be useful." So, my challenge for you: what are some things you think someone will (correctly) do differently, once they have this combination of special qualia?