NancyLebovitz comments on Attention Lurkers: Please say hi - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jowibou 19 April 2010 06:32:50AM 3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 April 2010 10:34:23AM *  5 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Jowibou 19 April 2010 01:47:52PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for the list Nancy, I will check them out. BTW your Zendo link points to Eleusis.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 April 2010 02:01:55PM 0 points [-]

Corrected. Thanks.

Comment author: RobinZ 19 April 2010 11:41:41AM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 April 2010 11:46:57AM 1 point [-]

Thank you. Corrected.

Comment author: dougsharp 20 April 2010 07:11:05AM 1 point [-]

Thanks for that list of games.