Daniel Kokotajlo

What advice do you have to somebody who wants to become good at it but isn't currently good at it?

Do it every day.

And do you have advice on what kinds of things to start?

One frustration you can have is you want to do it, but it is just like you have so little to stay.

You don't have that deep a world model.

A lot of the ideas you have are just really shallow or wrong.

Just do it anyway?

I have noticed two things in my own – I mean, I don't do that much writing, but from the little I do –

One, I actually was very shallow and wrong when I started.

I started the blog in college.

So I just like would not – if you are somebody who's like this is like a bullshit, like there's nothing to this.

Somebody else wrote about this already or just like it's a very –

That's fine.

Like, what did you expect, right?

Like, of course, as you're reading more things and learning more about the world, that's to be expected.

And just keep doing it if you want to keep getting better at it.

And the other thing, now when I write blog posts, as I'm writing them, I'm just like,

Why?

These are just, like, some random stories from when I was in China.

They're, like, kind of cringe stories.