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Yes. I think LW's problems as an introduction to rationality go far beyond this. The Sequences are a great introduction to rationality if you were in to them from early on and could take part in the discussions they generated, but as a sequence of cold blog posts they're a large, disconnected and forbidding introduction, and in any case there's no easy way to read them in order. LW in general doesn't come across as a website with a mission of improving rationality so much as a community with curious shared interests like deciding how many boxes to take and getting our heads frozen.
Maybe we need to do more with "This ia a part of my life I'd like to improve, how do I apply rationality to it?".
Sometimes it helps to have good examples of a skill in action rather than being told about solved problems.