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Delurking from the woods of deepest Wisconsin. Doug Sharp here, old school game developer (ChipWits, King of Chicago http://channelzilch.com ), just finishing a novel about kickstarting the Singularity by stealing space shuttle Enterprise ( Hel's Bet http://helsbet.com ). Debugging the Human OS has been a longtime interest of mine, so I keep an eye on Less Wrong. As an ex-5th grade teacher, I'm interested in the possibility of translating ideas emerging from LW into teaching people how to think clearly.
Glad to hear more people are thinking about rationality in reference to school age kids. Catch their brains while they're young. While you're at it - why not develop a game that teaches them to think clearly? And ermm...Hi.
Inventing new games isn't a bad idea, but there are already a bunch that would be worth promoting.
Eleusis, Zendo, Penultima, and Mao are all games of inductive reasoning. And a list of games with concealed rules, some of them suitable for this project, and some of them just silly.
Mao might be the best bet for getting started with a lot of kids-- it's already a popular game.
For that matter, Twenty Questions might be a good place to start.
There are some interesting claims of increased IQ at the WWF n Proof site-- I don't know how well founded they are, but the game implies the possibility of a similar game based on Bayesian logic.
Thanks for the list Nancy, I will check them out. BTW your Zendo link points to Eleusis.
Corrected. Thanks.
Quick meta aside: if you have a URL with parentheses, you have to put a backslash ("\") before each close-paren.
It comes up a lot with Wikipedia URLs, or I'd just send a message.
Thank you. Corrected.
Thanks for that list of games.
I'd be happy to collaborate on that type of game!
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Hey Doug, glad to see another Wisconsinite :) I am brand new round here, been reading for a while though. Goodluck!