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if you took it seriously, I don't think the right response is to shrug, and wait for Ray to come back with some visibly impressive results.
Hey Ray, I just wanted to send an approval signal that is stronger than a strong upvote.
I'm in the early stages of building a deliberate AI-enhanced performance startup and my work on it is heavily based on your feedbackloop rationality research.
Originally, I was developing a personal-use-only system for regularly using strategies like purposeful practice, metastrategic brainstorming, and the think it faster exercise with significantly reduced friction. This seemed like a low-hanging fruit because most of the friction seemed to come from needing to remember to use the technique and not having actionable instructions easily available.
But then I experienced how game-changing these cognitive tools can be, I found myself repeatedly diving into the expertise acquisition literature to improve my system, and eventually, that side-project grew into my main thing.
I'm saying this because, for me personally, your work has been far more impactful than, say, reading the sequences or practising CFAR techniques without my deliberate performance architecture in place.
And I would bet a lot of money and months of my career on the belief that---with effective systems facilitating easy application of your research, compelling marketing for giving it a try, and some solid data to back up the marketing---your work will significantly increase the effectiveness of professionals working on the world's most pressing problems.
So please keep it up.
There are people who believe in your paradigm and value your work.
You deserve to hear that.
I'm planning on gathering data on the effectiveness of feedbackloop-rationality-based interventions during the upcoming cohort of the Non-trivial Research Fellowship to which I've been admitted. My plans might change but I thought it would be nice to know that you're not the only person actively working on the problem.
So here you are.
As someone who has experienced debilitating burnout before, I will provide the boring advice to be more cautious around it than you think you need to be. For this kind of thing, it's worth seriously considering that you might be critically wrong about how much slack you really need.
Take care!
It is now 11 years later. Have the people who embarked on quests to become 1000-year-old vampires succeeded? If not, where did they fail? What obstacles did they face and how did they overcome them?
Please pass on your knowledge to the next generation of aspiring vampires. The world is at stake after all.
My friends and I are eager to receive your wisdom and succeed where you failed (or follow in your footsteps if you succeeded). Helping to accelerate the next generation of vampires is probably among the highest-leverage things one can do and certainly something a 1000-year-old vampire would have done.