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Exercise: Solve "Thinking Physics" — LessWrong

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Eliezer's Class Project has a fictional group of rationality students try to find the true theory of quantum gravity in one month. This always seemed like a cool goal and test for rationality training to aspire to. If you're not solving difficult open problems faster than science, your Art of Rationality probably isn't complete. Of course, our Art of Rationality isn't complete yet. But, I think there is something promising in this area, as a way to ground out "rationality training" in something concrete. It seems like good practice to take a given physics question you don't understand the theory behind, and try to invent the theory yourself. I don't think we're anywhere close to the "definitively impressive" version of rationality practice/training. But, I think a good next step is "Solve Thinking Physics™" Thinking Physics is a textbook teaching physics "question-first" – it presents a physics-y situation, and asks you to figure out what happens next. The questions are multiple choice

x Exercise: Solve "Thinking Physics" — LessWrong Feedbackloop-First Rationality Exercises / Problem-Sets Meetups (specific examples) Physics Practical Rationality Frontpage 102 [ Question ] Exercise: Solve "Thinking Physics" by Raemon 1st Aug 2023 6 min read A 5 30 102 Note: please write any answers to this prompt in spoiler-tags. Recently I set out to deliberate practice at "reasoning about confusing intellectual problems." Eliezer's Class Project has a fictional group of rationality students try to find the true theory of quantum gravity in one month. This always seemed like a cool goal and

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