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Monks of Magnitude — LessWrong

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Sometimes I encounter a concept and it immediately embeds itself in my culture, such that it feels like I always knew it.  This is a short description of such a concept; it was a near-perfect match for a way I already thought about things, and has since become a useful handle that I find myself explaining to others (so that I can subsequently reference it) roughly once a month. There is a certain story, which I will not name here in order to reduce the spoiler-y nature of the following description. In that story, there is a monastery, and the monastery is divided into tiers, or levels. (I may not be precisely representing the story, here, but rather how the thing in the story ended up being recorded by my brain.) Some monks are 1-day monks.  They come out from their seclusion once a day, and mingle with the regular people, and share their insights, and make new observations, and then retreat back to their private spaces to muse and meditate. Some monks are 10-day monks.  They are much

x Monks of Magnitude — LessWrong Practice & Philosophy of Science Inferential Distance Rationality World Optimization Frontpage 140 Monks of Magnitude by Duncan Sabien (Inactive) 18th Feb 2022 6 min read 50 140 Sometimes I encounter a concept and it immediately embeds itself in my culture , such that it feels like I always knew it. This is a short description of such a concept; it was a near-perfect match for a way I already thought about things, and has since become a useful handle that I find myself explaining to others (so that I can subsequently reference it) roughly once a month. There is

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