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Triaging mental phenomena or: leveling up the stack trace skill
DavidRV00

Would you mind giving an example or two of how you've done deliberate practice? I always have trouble finding ways to exercise mental skills when I'm not being forced to use them.

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1RomeoStevens
At first I set a 2 minute timer, chose one particular type of frame and just noted each mental event that matched. So Mental imagery was just noting "image" each time I caught a mental image. Sometimes they are much too fast or changing as you try to catch them, that's fine. There was no sense of rushing to keep up or worry if one didn't arise for awhile (though that sometimes seemed to warrant noting as "blank image"). I increased slowly to 5 minutes and did the other types of frames. After some comfort was built I tried multiple types at once, "image", "talk", "image", "feeling" etc. just noting as they arose. I did this for 1 month. I used various habit type loading things to maintain the habit for a month, then practiced it more sporadically since then. The benefits seem to be permanent.
How does personality vary across US cities?
DavidRV20

Fascinating that the high-extroversion cities are places I know well, while the low-extroversion cities are places I've never heard of.

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On Philosophers Against Malaria
DavidRV00

GiveWell also perceives its audience as uninterested in higher expected value but higher risk options.

Doesn't seem entirely plausible, given that GiveWell's second-highest rated charity and several of the other next-ranked charities are acknowledged to likely have close-to-zero impact, in exchange for high expected value. They don't seem to shy away from a cause just because they perceive it as high-risk.

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