Jack comments on Outreach opportunity - Less Wrong

11 Post author: RichardKennaway 12 November 2010 11:07AM

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Comment author: Jack 12 November 2010 09:27:29PM 3 points [-]

Cognitive bias has a much higher chance of being selected than those other three. Bayes' theorem, love it though I do, just isn't going to be something that grabs people's attention. Defeating death isn't science and neither is invisible purple dragons.

Comment author: ata 12 November 2010 09:47:23PM *  1 point [-]

Agreed. The whole notion of "You can't trust your brain, and here's why and how" is probably the most likely to catch people's interest.

What category would that fall into? I guess "biology" would be the closest, but do we know if topics in cognitive science would be accepted?