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I suspect that you'll find computer science (my own field of study) is very highly represented. Maybe even a majority. That's because within our field, any false beliefs and sloppy thinking eventually surface in the form of bugs; we spend hundreds of hours searching for and fixing these problems, which is applied rationality in pure form, with feedback. All programmers are forced to get in the habit of questioning their beliefs, and for us, improving cognitive skills has a very short payback period.
Agreed. I hold an undergraduate degree in computer science as well, and I'm quite certain that Eliezer has at minimum a graduate student's level of knowledge in the field.
Of course, computer science is arguably either a subset of applied mathematics, or an intersection of mathematics and engineering.