Shoulder Advisors 101 - LessWrong

Motivation for post: As a former CFAR instructor, longtime teacher, and rationality pundit, I find myself giving lots of advice in lots of different contexts. I also try to check in from time to time…

x Shoulder Advisors 101 — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2021 Techniques Subagents Consciousness Rationality Practical Curated 214 Shoulder Advisors 101 by Duncan Sabien (Inactive) 9th Oct 2021 17 min read 124 214 Motivation for post: As a former CFAR instructor, longtime teacher, and rationality pundit, I find myself giving lots of advice in lots of different contexts. I also try to check in from time to time to find out which bits of advice actually proved helpful to people. Over the years, I've heard from a genuinely surprising number of people that my (offhand, very basic, not especially insi

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