I just ran a workshop teaching the rationality concepts I've developed this year.

If you're interested in paying money for a similar workshop, please fill out this form.

Six months ago, I started thinking about improving rationality.

Originally my frame was "deliberate practice for confusing problems". For the past two months, I've been iterating on which skills seemed useful to me personally, and which I might convey to others in a short period of time.

I settled into the frame "what skills are necessary for finding and pivoting to 10x better plans?". It's the area I most needed rationality for, myself, and it seemed generalizable to a lot of people I know.

I ended up with 5-10 skills I used on a regular basis, and I put together a workshop aiming to teach those skills in an immersive bootcamp environment. The skills wove together into a [...]

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Outline:

(01:55) tl;dr on results

(02:51) Workshop Outline

(05:41) Core Workshop Skills

(05:56) Metastrategic Brainstorming

(07:08) 2+ Plans at 3 Strategic Levels

(09:37) Fluent, Cruxy Operationalization

(12:12) Feedback

(13:04) What changes did you make to you plan?

(13:59) Whats the most money youd have paid for this workshop?

(14:44) Whats the most money youd have paid for the idealized version of this workshop that lives in your head, tailored for you?

(15:15) Overall, how worthwhile was the workshop compared to what else you could have been doing? (scale of 1-7)

(15:38) Rating individual activities/skills

(16:02) My own updates

(17:39) Would you like to attend a Ray Rationality Workshop?

(17:44) (or: what are your cruxes for doing so?)

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First published:
April 6th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h5mDx2Mt2P5m9v588/fractal-strategy-workshop-report

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“‘Fractal Strategy’ workshop report” by Raemon

LessWrong (30+ Karma)