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Polaris, Five-Second Versions, and Thought Lengths — LessWrong

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Author's note: During CFAR's 4.5d workshops, concepts that had been formalized as "techniques," and which could be described as algorithms and practiced in isolation, generally received 60+ minute sessions. Important concepts which did not have direct practical application, or which had not been fully pinned down, were often instead taught as 20-minute "flash classes." The idea was that some things are well worth planting as seeds, even if there was not room in the workshop to water and grow them. There were some 30 or 40 flash classes taught at various workshops over the years; the most important dozen or so make up the next few entries in this sequence. Imagine the following three dichotomies: By now, you should have a set of concepts that help you describe the common threads between these three stories. You can point at goal factoring and turbocharging, and recognize ways in which the first person in each example is sort of missing the point. Those first three people, as describe

x Polaris, Five-Second Versions, and Thought Lengths — LessWrong CFAR Handbook Rationality Frontpage 52 Polaris, Five-Second Versions, and Thought Lengths by CFAR!Duncan 1st Aug 2022 9 min read 12 52 Author's note: During CFAR's 4.5d workshops, concepts that had been formalized as "techniques," and which could be described as algorithms and practiced in isolation, generally received 60+ minute sessions. Important concepts which did not have direct practical application, or which had not been fully pinned down, were often instead taught as 20-minute "flash classes." The idea was that some thing

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