I'm a research lead at Timaeus and attended a workshop that @Raemon ran from Oct 4-6 (it was shortened from 4 days to 2.5 days to fit into a weekend). I had prior interest + experience in deliberate practice and enjoyed lots of Ray's posts about it, so I was curious about the workshop on top of being in a position to actually make impactful plans.

This is a lightly edited write up that I initially made for myself and for the team at Timaeus about my experience and takeaways. It's not super polished, but seems better to not clean up and publish than to not clean up and not publish.

What was the workshop about?

Ray is interested in metacognitive improvements. A rough definition of these are: skills or strategies you can learn that make you better able to understand your cognitive process and to influence it [...]

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Outline:

(00:41) What was the workshop about?

(04:07) Examples from the workshop

(06:39) What lessons were useful to take away?

(06:44) General skills that are OP (not all from the workshop, including my own takes in here)

(07:54) Specific skills from the workshop that are OP

(12:21) What did I personally take away?

(16:04) Other misc thoughts

(17:49) Concrete value in my day-to-day research

(18:44) Go to the next one!

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First published:
October 24th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ASARoXuM6XBPNNRou/reflections-on-the-metastrategies-workshop

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Reflections on the Metastrategies Workshop” by gw

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