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The blogpost author (SquirrelInHell on LessWrong) died awhile ago. I'm not sure who's currently paying for their website or how long it'll be up. I don't have the rights to this, but decided it was important enough to have on LessWrong that I decided to copy-paste this post and... I dunno, own whatever karmic debt I incur. This is possibly my single-favorite rationality technique. The first day I tried this I immediately ended up teaching myself a valuable rationality-life-lesson due to the feedback loop it created. When I teach this technique at small workshops, typically ~25% of people go "oh wow that was immediately helpful." I haven't gotten as much value out of it as SquirrelInHell suggests (i.e. it's sometimes effortful to think, and they claim if you're doing it right it basically shouldn't be), but I also haven't really sat and trained it deliberately in-depth, and meanwhile I've gotten value from it each time I try it. Text of original article: Note: everyone has cognitive str

x Tuning your Cognitive Strategies — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2023 Techniques Rationality Frontpage 186 Tuning your Cognitive Strategies by Raemon , SquirrelInHell 27th Apr 2023 Linkpost for bewelltuned.com 11 min read 59 186 The blogpost author ( SquirrelInHell on LessWrong) died awhile ago. I'm not sure who's currently paying for their website or how long it'll be up. I don't have the rights to this, but decided it was important enough to have on LessWrong that I decided to copy-paste this post and... I dunno, own whatever karmic debt I incur. This is possibly my single-favorite rationali

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