Hmm... now that I think of it, my "sparring partner" approach is a step-by-step alternative to trying to "do" one-shot strategy. Instead of a fully-formed strategy being designed out of 2 days of leadership retreat BS, it emerges gradually, contour by contour
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In any single sparring conversation, you might take 1-2 steps at most, but they add up over time. The strategy "takes shape" at the rate of actual alpha being uncovered in the situation, like a thing gradually revealing its full structure.
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I'm unhappy with the term stepbystepism. I need to know the True Name of this thing.
Possibly asynchronous sequentialism, as an antidote to the growing synchronous parallelism of the last few decades.
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Whatโs a thing you do mindfully โstep by stepโ very often?
Eg: making pour-over coffee
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Oh shot just figured out the True Name of this thing. Itโs not step-by-step, itโs loop-by-loop! Or better still, loopchaining.
You donโt move to the next loop until current loop gets to 99.9% and you retest all atomic and subchain loops each time you extend the loopchain.
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This is easily NP complete. To add loop n+1, you have to requalify minimum n loops again and max 2^n loops. If you donโt have nonlinear payoffs and/or โloop fusionโ where substrings chunk-up somehow, itโs an intractable way to learn.
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Worse. Each loop is an OODA loop, and the chain only works when the orientations are aligned. Which means potentially n^2 or higher misalignment modes. And this is under non-adversarial supervision.
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At my peak as an improv teacher, I absolutely felt like I could prescribe combinations of warmups to address a variety of performance goals, culminating in spontaneous musical narratives. Atomic skills included rhyming single syllables, yes and, raising stakes, gradually combine,
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The results would look like magic, but I got kids doing this stuff by breaking it down and doing drills.
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