RobinZ comments on Five-minute rationality techniques - Less Wrong
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If I only have a few minutes, I tell people to study cognitive bias, in the hope that surely any intelligent person can see that understanding what science has to say about the systematic, predictable failings of our own brains can hardly fail to be useful. You need long enough to impart the caution that you have to apply these things to yourself, not just to other people...
I agree, and I think Yudkowsky's suggestions in Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People is appropriate, here: