Inner-simulator prompts

Inner-simulator prompts

#using-system-1

Examples

  • Other-ising
    • Taking the "Outside view" on yourself
    • How would you advise someone else in a similar position?
  • Pre-hindsight (part of Murphyjitsu, a broad technique out of CFAR)
    • Typical example: "Two months from now, we break up. What went wrong?"
    • In short, assume you already know the answer & let intuition fill in the blanks
    • "If a future version of myself travels to the now, what would they advise me?"
  • Concretizing – unpacking all the details
  • Thinking in bets
    • Even if you won't make a public bet, you can try going through the motions as if. Like, actually log onto fatebook.io and formulate a bet you'd stand behind, giving it a judgment day and a percentage. That gets you in touch with what you truly believe.
      • Bonus if you think about how much money you'd dare to put on this. When the involvement of money actually affects your answer, that's your inner sim giving you its true expectations rather than letting you believe the stories you like to tell.

What's "inner simulator"?

www.greaterwrong.com/posts/zDXkd4sXaqvgQibvn/when-you-already-know-the-answer-using-your-inner-simulator

Surprise 3: When I learned Inner Simulator from Kenzie, I was surprised that it helped with everything in life forever.

The difference between Inner Simulator and the previous best tool I had was:

Previously, I thought of my system 1 as something that both “decided to make queries” and “returned the results of the queries.” i.e. my fast intuitions would notice something and give me information about it. I previously thought of “inner sim” as a different intelligence that worked on it’s own.

The difference with Kenzie’s “Inner Sim” approach is that my System 2 could decide when to query System 1. And then System 1 would return the query with its anticipations (which System 2 wouldn’t be able to generate on its own).

—www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Jash4Gbi2wpThzZ4k/cfar-takeaways-andrew-critch

I wasn't surprised because this ("querying system 1") is also what you learn to do in Gendlin's Focusing.

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