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So, a lesswrong suggests gathering "The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject," where "tacit knowledge" is defined as "knowledge that can't properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction". The low-hanging fruit is that the recommendations under "Finance" are Keith "Roaring Kitty" Gill of GameStop fame... and Martin Shkreli.
The higher-hanging fruit is the seeming conviction that just because a lesswrong saw somebody drone on about a thing in a YouTube video, it can't be explained in written words.
Yeah i feel like there’s several obvious fruit on this tree:
“Tacit” knowledge?
YouTube is words, folks.
Lots of things *are* difficult to learn from words, famously. Colors of you can’t see, flavors you haven’t experienced, emotions. You can’t learn them from video either.
I personally would ask Shkreli advice on many things: How to earn hard time; How to go to the special hell: What’s the best song on Once Upon a Time in Shaolin? Maybe not on finance tho.
tictac knowledge
Wow the LW “tacit knowledge” root post is a trip.
“This tacit knowledge is a form of intellectual dark matter, pervading society in a million ways, some of them trivial, some of them vital. Examples include woodworking, metalworking, housekeeping, cooking, dancing, amateur public speaking, assembly line oversight, rapid problem-solving, and heart surgery.”
it strikes me that there's quite a similarity in how the lesswrongs have this continuous drive for so-called "secret knowledge" to how others are about sacred geometry and "hidden universe secrets". anyone else pick up on something like that?
I think of it as an evolved version of what a lot of the new age cults did with quantum woo — it’s a thin veneer of knowledge designed to trick folks who think they’re too smart for religion into a religious mindset. the Rationalist version of the veneer is particularly thick, but the end goal is the same: Magic is Real and You Can Be The Gandalf
alright so definitely not an isolated observation :) and yeah that's well put
Shkreli is probably good for teaching you how to use Excel at 90wpm?