DanArmak comments on Reflections on Pre-Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 10 November 2009 10:13:31PM *  1 point [-]

I should say that people typically fail to learn about it through osmosis.

(Too simple a subject, indeed. What a prime example of a statement that's Not Even Wrong. Perhaps "too removed from ordinary human experience" is a better description.)

Comment author: timtyler 10 November 2009 10:53:42PM *  0 points [-]

Simple - at least compared to science or maths, surely. If you look at the school curriculum, you often have to be a big and complex subject to get your own dedicated slot.

I'm not denigrating the subject - just trying to see what happened to its timetable in the context of the school curriculum.

Comment author: DanArmak 10 November 2009 10:57:36PM 0 points [-]

Well, it depends on the definition of "rationality" used. Many components are taught formally and are anything but simple - such as probability theory.

Comment author: timtyler 10 November 2009 11:25:31PM 0 points [-]

Probability theory is a pretty small subset of maths - plus it is probably already being taught anyway in the maths curriculum.