Going to try an experiment: livestreaming part of my morning writing today at 9AM PST. I’ll mostly be consolidating some hazy questions from Design Unbound. No live interaction with viewers (hard enough w/o that). Video (probably) available afterwards.
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This turned out to be a challenging set of ideas to disentangle, so it was largely a video of me being confused for 90m, but hey, that's what my mornings are often about.
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I had to break away at 9:30… I’ve lost my link to your “current notes” page; will you update it with a pointer into this?
Also btw I had no video, only a black screen. Maybe problem at my end ( not familiar with twitch)
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The tension concerning domain knowledge is one I’ve recently struggled with in wanting to present case studies in meta-rationality. Problem is that it depends on deep embedding in the object level, which in most cases I don’t have, and certainly can’t convey to readers concisely
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I worry that without presenting the masses of intricate details, I’ll give the impression that meta-rationality is a couple simple, abstract tricks
whereas its essence is caring enough about the object level to get the specifics right, instead of relying on a preexisting theory
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I’m really worried about that too. I think you’re right that the essence is the internally-driven need to have fully “digested” the object-level material. It comes across in the result, a bit like how Tolkien’s worlds contain his time spent in unseen world building.