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I once asked my AP English teacher why we spent so much time reading and analyzing fiction, and to my surprise, he couldn't answer me. (In retrospect, he deserves a lot of credit for being willing to admit his ignorance.) He said he would think about it, so I waited a few months and asked again, and he still didn't have an answer.
What I wouldn't do to have Less Wrong available during my high school years... which makes me wonder, where are the teenage would-be rationalists hanging out today? There seem to be fewer of them here than I would have expected.
Where's "here?"
Less Wrong
I think that teenage "would-be rationalists" exist in fairly small quantities, and those that exist are fairly unlikely to know about this site.
Is it in our interest to identify as many of them as possible while they're still relatively young? In the USA, "gifted" 7th graders are sometimes encouraged to take the SAT, and Duke sells their names and addresses to those offering "qualified educational opportunities." In my opinion, that is probably the best available test of smartness for people of that age.