Unsorted LW

(www.greaterwrong.com/posts/bbB4pvAQdpGrgGvXH/tuning-your-cognitive-strategies)

www.greaterwrong.com/posts/bbB4pvAQdpGrgGvXH/tuning-your-cognitive-strategies#comment-9jaKYg6aka2gyqNip

Note that Eliezer has also described that he does something similar. And more interestingly, it seems like Eliezer prefers to invest in what I would call ‘incremental optimization of thought’ over ‘fundamental debugging’:

EY: "Your annual reminder that you don’t need to resolve your issues, you don’t need to deal with your emotional baggage, you don’t need to process your trauma, you don’t need to confront your past, you don’t need to figure yourself out, you can just go ahead and do the thing."

OK, what are cognitive strategies? See cauldron analogy.