


There are trillion dollar companies that haven’t been founded. We haven’t unravelled all the mysteries of science. We don’t know how to solve the alignment problem. I feel like so much of our ability to make the world great is bottlenecked by creativity. You’re welcome to do that.) Why creativity? (If you just want to try it out once and then reevaluate, that’s also fine. Comment and commit to showing up for this week, and then five more. If you want that as well, I invite you to join me. And I want LessWrong to be a place that sustains a flourishing culture of practice and self-improvement. But what matters is to retain that will to improve, that burning fire to advance further. But you know that “sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect”.Įventually I’ll switch away from the babble challenge to other things. They look upon your mountain of compound returns and all they see is magic. Showing up for years to tread that subtle incline, until one day you find yourself side by side with a beginner. Showing up every week and putting all that deliberateness into your craft. Practice is about building for the long run. (The format might change a bit along the line, but the impetus will remain the same.) I am hereby committing to doing a babble challenge on LessWrong every week for the coming six weeks (including today). Reading your answers made me realise I can do a lot better. Both in terms of the turnout (which far surpassed my expectations) and in terms of the creativity of individual submissions. (Though there’s likely a lot of overlap.)

Together we produced more than 1300 ways of going to the moon. Gjm, mr-hire, Tetraspace Grouping, Neel Nanda, ErickBall, Harmless, steven0461, Vanilla_cabs, gogishvilli, justinpombrio, Bautista Cazeaux, tomcatfish, NunoSempere, Unnamed, MikkW, Mati_Roy, James Fadden, James Barry, frontier64, Slider, smile圓14. To last week's babble champions, who made it to 50.

Your phone has enough battery power to not need to recharge. You have enough energy to not need food or water for 10 years. You only have the clothes on your body and a phone in your pocket. This week’s challenge: You find yourself in a locked, empty room. Once again, it is time to become stronger.
