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When it's less early in the morning for me I'll come back and say something constructive. For now I'll just say that you can't count to 4.
It's pretty obvious the third section is
since, y'know, it's in bold and all.
When Oscar commented there were in fact two "3."s. I corrected the typographical error.
Is it less early in the morning yet? ;)
Damn, I knew someone was going to call me on that. Luckily I didn't say which morning (and in fact as I write this it is again in the morning), so I only promised to comment eventually. I'll come back this afternoon and formulate some advice, but given that I haven't gone to university myself yet my advice won't have the most solid evidence behind it.
:) I was hoping a gentle jest would extract more free advice out of you.
Okay here's my advice:
1) Which subjects and courses can make the best contribution to Epistemic Rationality?
I think that here the obvious answer is the right one: Maths and Psychology are the subjects to concentrate on. I have a theory that the purer subjects are harder to self teach, so this would sugest that you enroll in Mathematics courses and continue to teach yourself more about heruistics and biases.
2) Which subjects and courses provide the most Instrumental Rationality benefits?
The BCom is the clear winner here. All of the successful people I can think of have done well because they know how to play the system (getting loans, business deals etc.). With lots of real world cases being analysed, this course seems ideal for learning aplied rationallity.
3) Given all available information about the universe and what inferences can be drawn about my preferences and abilities what course structure should I choose?
You seem to sugest that you're a fast learner, so you'll probably be able to keep good pace in the couses you enroll in. This sugests to me that you should try to enroll in a broad range of subjects, since you'll be able to learn deaply in all of them without being overwhelmed.
4) Which course do you just happen to like?
This is the hardest one for me to judge, but I've always found that subjects too removed from reallity quickly become less fun. An aplied edge helps to suply new ideas and keep things moving. Also, I love that Stargate episode.
So, to me, the BCom with Maths and Stats seems like a great idea. Just enough Maths (with stats being the most useful maths to rationality) and the BCom to apply it too. And hopefully you become rich as well.