Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic — LessWrong

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Edit in September 2022: I wrote a response to this post here, in which I lay out some concerns, some unexpected costs of taking "agentic" actions for me (and mistakes I’ve made), and things I’ve changed my mind on since writing this post. Nearly all of the best things that have happened to me in the last year have been a result of actively seeking and asking for those things. I have slowly been developing the skill of agency. By ‘agency’ I mean the ability to get what you want across different contexts – the general skill of coming up with ambitious goals [1] and actually achieving them, whatever they are. In my experience, I’ve found this is learnable. Neel Nanda explains the concept of agency really well in this blog post, so I won’t repeat it here. Instead, I’ll focus on how to learn it. It’s worth acknowledging that agency is often socially discouraged in different minority groups. Speaking from my own experience, I used to feel shameful around being agentic – I associated it with

x Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic — LessWrong Agency Ambition Productivity Practical Frontpage 71 Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic by [anonymous] 26th Jun 2022 10 min read 16 71 Edit in September 2022: I wrote a response to this post here , in which I lay out some concerns, some unexpected costs of taking "agentic" actions for me (and mistakes I’ve made), and things I’ve changed my mind on since writing this post. Nearly all of the best things that have happened to me in the last year have been a result of actively seeking and asking for those things. I have slowly been develo

Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic — LessWrong

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