Applied Rationality Training Regime: Index

I find it useful to think of myself as a collection of stories that my rather fragmentary selves tell to each other, but sometimes we don't make a lot of sense; sometimes it seems like I know exactly what I ought to be thinking/feeling/learning/doing, but it just doesn't happen. That's not rational, as I think of the term. I'm therefore trying to go through Mark Xu's not-quite-30-day "Applied Rationality Training Regime", which is a series of methods and exercises for trying to be a little less irrational. The (daily, I hope) posts listed below are my notes-to-me, as usual. I have not tried hard to make them self-contained, and I doubt that they can easily be read without following the links, each day, to the "Regime" pages from which they came. (I could just as well have started with the alkjash "Hammertime" sequence; which I will probably go through afterwards. Well, maybe. Or maybe I won't even finish this, but I'm now done day five and kind of looking forward to what's next. We'll see.)

I started this index post as a Day#4 ("Murphyjitsu") exercise, when it occurred to me that I would sometimes like to go back and forth between these daily posts as they form a sequence of their own. If anybody else (maybe one of my kids?) wants to look at the sequence, they might want that too. So... each post is headed with "< | ^ | >"; "<" is a link backwards to the previous post, "^" is a link up to this index post, and ">" is a link onwards to the next post. The first post has no "<" and the currently-last one has no link on the ">".

1. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #1: What is applied rationality?
2. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #2: Searching for Bugs
   
3. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #3: Tips and Tricks
4. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #4: Murphyjitsu
5. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #5: TAPs 
6. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #6: Seeking Sense
7. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #7: Goal Factoring
8. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #8: Noticing
9. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #9: Double-Crux
10. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #10: Systemization
11. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #11: Socratic Ducking
12. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #12: Focusing
13. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #13: Resolve Cycles
14. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #14: Traffic Jams
15. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #15: CoZE
16. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #16: Hamming Questions
17. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #17: Deflinching and Lines of Retreat
18. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #18: Negative Visualization
19. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #19: Hamming Questions for Potted Plants
20. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #20: OODA Loop
21. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #21: Executing Intentions
22. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #22: Murphyjitsu 2
23. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #23: TAPs 2
24. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #24: Resolve Cycles 2
25. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" #25: Recursive Self-Improvement
26. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" Review#1
27. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" Review#2
28. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" Review#3
29. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" Review#4
30. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" Review#5
31. "Applied Rationality Training Regime" Overall
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
    
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
    
    

Each time I add a new post N+1,

1.  I will copy " <  |  ^  |  >"  to the top (center) of N+1.
   
2.       (the "^" is an upwards link, to this index post.)
3.  I will set the "<" to be a prev link, to post N which is already out.
4.        (the ">" will remain unlinked until a post N+2 appears)
5.  I will then publish the post, so I can link to it.
   
6.  I will add a link to the new post N+1 at the end of this post, with N+1's title.
   
7.  Finally, I will copy that link to the ">" at the top of post N.