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Thanks! My account is parconley if you'd like to add me as a co-author.

I tried, but I don't have the 100 karma on the EA Forum required to cross-post. If you or someone else would like to, feel free!

Also, if you want to work with rat-adjacent people every once and a while, there's an EA Focusmate Group you can join.

Thanks for the point. I was going to add this as a footnote in a draft relating to uncertainty about the anecdote specifically (though it doesn't quite capture your critique):

Sometimes called the Bannister Effect, though the 4-minute mile effect is more understandable. Also, I chose the 4-minute-mile anecdote because it is pithy and present in the Overton window. There exists conjecture as to whether subsequent records after Bannister's mile were due to a psychological effect (compared to, say, equipment improvements; I'm not concerned with the epistemics

You've probably thought of this and have reasons for and against it, but maybe some hotels (bedside) and restaurants (on tables) would be willing to take copies too? Seems much less likely that libraries though.

How large do you think the marginal benefits of doing the full workout you recommend in Updates and Reflections on Optimal Exercise after Nearly a Decade versus the quicker version in this post?

Useful clarification and thanks for writing this up!

Inspired by and building on this, I decided to clean up some thoughts of my own in a similar direction. Here they are on my short forum: What are the actual use cases of memory systems like Anki?

What are the actual use cases of memory systems like Anki?

Epistemic status: spent 30min cleaning up some notes from my Obsidian I jotted down yesterday. This ontology is rough and a bit illegible but potentially useful for narrowing down the actual use cases of memory systems.

Inspired by @Saul Munn's recent short form: Active Recall and Spaced Repetition are Different Things. The concepts of active recall and spaced repetition apply pretty well here, but I saw Saul's post after writing most of the text below.

Roughly, there are types of knowledge in domains... (read more)

Another caveat:

• I am believable and have expertise in very few major life skills, and possibly don't have expertise in the thing you're asking advice for.

Related note: I think developing the skill of identifying believability and expertise is very powerful (though I have only been applying said skill for a couple of years explicitly; caveat emptor, lol.)

Here's Cedric Chin outlining believability defined by Ray Dalio: 

Technique summary:
Believable people are people who have 1) a record of at least three relevant successes and 2) have great explanations o

[I only skimmed the post so you might have addressed this, but…]

I once met a sometime who made super intense eye contact all the time, and it gave me weird vibes. Sort of uncanny valley vibes, if I try to put words to it? It was like they were staring at me in normal conversation. One hypothesis I had as to why is that maybe he did one of these type of activities that you outline here (iirc, I was introduced to the idea being a thing through an old LW post on scientology doing it?).

Epistemic status: I don’t know if an event like this was the cause of this ... (read more)

Tacit Knowledge Videos added to the list from May–August, 2024. Enjoy!

• Kenneth Folk, pranayama breathing.
  • “Kenneth Folk is an instructor of meditation who has received worldwide acknowledgement for his innovative approach to secular Buddhist meditation. After twenty years of training in the Burmese Theravada Buddhist tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, including three years of intensive silent retreat in monasteries in Asia and the U.S., he began to spread his own findings, successfully stripping away religious dogma to render meditation accessible to modern p

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If there were a bunch of videos of people Google-fu-ing like this, I wouldn't add this article to the post.

However, since this is one of the few good resources on Google-fu that I know of, I'm adding it to the post. Despite it not being a video.

I've added this as a note. Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words! I'd be curious to hear more about what makes you think that!

Edited - thanks!

How would you go about answering this question post-said insight? What would the mental moves look like?

I'm never good at giving an answer to my favorite book/movie/etc.

I’m considering live-streaming (or just making a video) of myself doing this on a totally new topic to show how I do this in real-time, since it works so well for me. Let me know if you think this could be helpful.

I'd be curious to see this video of you creating flashcards on a new topic! And would very likely add it to the post.

Any chance you could pin the 'Updates Thread' too?

Below are the new tacit knowledge videos added to the post since mid-April, 2024.

• Paul Meehl, Philosophical Psychology 1989 course lectures, "deep introduction to 20c philosophy of science, using psychology rather than physics as the model science -- because it's harder!" (via @Jonathan Stray)
  • "Meehl was a philosopher of science, a statistician, and a lifelong clinical psychologist. He wrote a book showing that statistical prediction usually beats clinical judgement in 1954, and a paper on the replication crisis in psychology in 1978. He perso

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Thanks for the Git recommendation; added!

Update: added the disclaimer.

Thanks for the feedback! I too am skeptical of the finance videos, agreeing that the video probably came across my radar due to the figures being popular rather than displaying believable tacit knowledge.

I've gone back and forth on whether to remove the videos from the list or just add your expert anecdata as a disclaimer on the videos. In the spirit of quantity vs. quality, I'm leaning toward keeping the videos on the list.

Thanks for the feedback! I'd be curious to hear more about (1) what subjects you're referring to and (2) how learning tacit knowledge with video has changed your learning habits (if your view here is based on your own experience).

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Thanks, added! I look forward to seeing what else you have.

I would find forecasting videos would be interesting to watch.

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Relevant note from the entry:

Me: I was hesitant to add a lecture series to this list at first. I changed my mind after listening to the first video, where Meehl provides interesting details (gossip, almost) about the life of an academic and the various personalities of his successful academic peers.

Fundraising videos?

Sales tacit knowledge videos?

@habryka / @mods - would it be possible to pin (1) the 'Review Thread' and (2) this thread?

I think these will be the two most valuable comments on this post. The comment video submissions are a bit cluttered due to embeds and submissions are more accessible/navigatable through the OP.

Adding to this: an interesting frame is to think about how subcultures develop illegible shadow structures beyond their legible structure and communities. Similar to how banks/bureaucracies do: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/

Review of: Elie Hassenfeld, Holden Karnofsky, Timothy Ogden, Rob Reich, Tom Rutledge, Brigid Slipka, Cari Tuna, Julia Wise: GiveWell's Public Board Meetings (2007–2020 have audio).

I'm a college student with only pretty low-stakes work experience. I listened to the first 5–10 meetings as I would a podcast last week. Some takeaways, emphasizing that I only just watched them last week:

• It was interesting to follow the narrative of Holden and Elie getting started on the project. Like, anecdotes about people's experiences starting a startup are everywhere,

[pasting a comment of mine on Zvi's recent monthly roundup]

If anyone has anecdotes as to why they think the videos have been useful to them I'd be curious to hear. I'm still unsure of their benefit; the interest could just be novelty/insight-porn (Andy Matuschak speculates something in this direction, though he too seems ambivalent). I wrote the post partly as a test to see if there is much use.

Do people really learn anything from these streams? People certainly claim to learn things from my note-writing stream. I can believe it, maybe, but I wonder to wha

Do people really learn anything from these streams? People certainly claim to learn things from my note-writing stream. I can believe it, maybe, but I wonder to what extent people are deluding themselves. Certainly it’s extremely inefficient: what’s the insight-per-minute?

— Andy Matuschak, Could streaming help convey tacit knowledge? (Working Notes)

Post attempts to compile The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject. I notice I lack motivation to use this modality, and think it would be a poor fit for how I learn, and that it is relatively less tempting now than it would have been two years ago before LLMs got good. The problem is that you don’t direct where it goes and can’t interact, so they’re not so likely to be teaching you the thing you don’t know and are ready to learn. But many people benefit?

If anyone has anecdotes as to why they think the videos have been useful to them I'd be curious ... (read more)

Glad to see that people find the post useful! I hope it will see many future contributions as well. In case interesting to anyone, I've just put together a google form Substack (edited 5.6.24) to create an email list for those who would like to be sent lists of newly added videos every month or so.

Meal prepping Tacit Knowledge Videos?

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I did not know 'conlangers' were a thing. Thanks for sharing and added.