Good Macro, Bad Micro 2021-06-04T04:30:52.937Z

Ilemauzar's Shortform 2021-06-04T04:30:52.722Z

Comment by Ilemauzar on Chess and cheap ways to check day to day variance in cognition · 2021-07-07T00:18:08.487Z · LW · GW

I have noticed certain variations in my play depending on my emotional state. I am a casual player (1000 ELO on Lichess) but try to get in at least one game per day. It was a big deal for me to hit the 1000 mark, so I am very conscious of how much above it / below it I am at any time. When I am anxious or thinking about a past fight with my SO, or am stressed out about a current issue, I start losing games like crazy (And my ELO drops significantly). Once everything is fine and dandy, it starts climbing up again. I think chess is very much a game of extreme concentration and any intruding thoughts (which depending on the problem will penetrate with more / less ease) seep through and break that focus. 

Comment by Ilemauzar on Good Macro, Bad Micro · 2021-06-05T18:50:31.266Z · LW · GW

Well yes, it a consequence of scale, but my purpose here is to question the incentives behind maintaining 500 cars vs. one car. Taking your car maintenance example, I would expect a vehicle fleet administrator to apply the same schedule he uses for the fleet to his daily driver. If he applied the strategy that you describe (which is essentially reactive maintenance) to the fleet, there is a higher probability of one car failing than if he only applied it to his car. Using the same checklist he uses for the fleet for his personal car (let’s assume preventative maintenance) would result in increased reliability. 

Comment by Ilemauzar on Ilemauzar's Shortform · 2021-06-03T15:13:49.243Z · LW · GW

I was thinking about this the other day, and I don't know if it has a name. Please let me know if it does. For now I will call it the "power bank effect". When your phone battery is constantly low, you buy a portable power bank thinking that you will improve your phone charge as you will constantly have it on you. Actually, you have just added another device you need to charge and you end up just as bad as before, with an empty power bank and a phone with low charge. 

Comment by Ilemauzar on TEAM: a dramatically improved form of therapy · 2021-06-02T19:01:58.434Z · LW · GW

Thank you, I had bought David Burn's "Feeling Good" book years ago and it was helpful at the time. Unfortunately, I seemingly lost the skills I had learned (or possibly I never truly learned them?) in my later years. I listened to a few episodes (including the Live Sessions with Lee) and I am really enjoying it. My main focus is improving my relationship, so the effective communication and focus on empathy are especially interesting to me.