It's for training Calibration.

(2023: PredictionBook is going down but fatebook.io/ looks like a good successor)

• Gwern's 1001 PredictionBook Nights is a classic tour de force.
• www.alignmentforum.org/posts/dHchoTG6tRGEDHbtj/calibration-of-a-thousand-predictions
• www.greaterwrong.com/posts/YQ8H4e7z3q8ngev7J/raising-the-forecasting-waterline-part-1

The situation you find yourself in is called Warnock’s Dilemma, named after Bryan Warnock, one of the early Usenet pioneers. He said that silence can be interpreted in one of five different ways:

• The post is obviously correct, and so well researched that nothing more needs to be said.
• The post is complete and utter nonsense but no one wants to waste the time or energy to point it out.
• No one read the post.
• No one understood the post and thought it would be worth their time to ask for further clarification.
• No one cares about the post.

After reading Ryan Holiday’s book, Trust Me I’m Lying, I’m not sure that it is possible to incentivize comments without falling into the Buzzfeed trap of writing content with high emotional valence in order to drive engagement. I think that the way to improve one’s writing is to seek out people and ask them to give comments (and incentivize this, either through social means or even via financial means, if you can afford it). Relying on one’s writing alone to draw commenters sets up an incentive gradient that leads straight to Buzzfeed, and I’m not sure that there’s really any way out of it.

– www.greaterwrong.com/posts/GHBLFPDhzeSQHx2eM/writing-that-provokes-comments

• Werner Heisenberg (1901–1983)
• Hugh Everett (1930–1982)
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Max Tegmark
• Fritjof Capra

Writes Kaj Sotala:

One, I’m by nature more of a listener than speaker. I usually prefer to let other people talk so that I can just soak up the information being offered. Second, my native way of thought is closer to text than speech. At best, I can generate thoughts as fast as I can type. But in speech, I often have difficulty formulating my thoughts into coherent sentences fast enough and frequently hesitate.

Both of these problems are solvable by having a sufficiently well built-up storage of cached thoughts that I don’t need to generate everything in real time. On the occasions when a conversations happens to drift into a topic I’m sufficiently familiar with, I’m often able to overcome the limitations and contribute meaningfully to the discussion.

Basically: develop my Slipbox / note pile. In particular, pay attention to bridges between topics, maybe turn them into flashcards.

Also kajsotala.fi/2015/10/two-conversationalist-tips-for-introverts/