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Poker is an excellent teaching vehicle. It really motivates to learn about probabilities, because it makes you win. It teaches you the emotional strength to accept sunk costs, because it reduces your unavoidable losses.
I find poker to be a fantastic teaching tool. You make the best decisions and then are confronted with results that vary wildly in the short-term. Over time though, the correct decisions and behavior pay off. This is a perfect model (in a simplified form) for how things like patience and morality function in the real world. They don't guarantee immediate payoffs and short-term success, they work most often and most reliably over long time frames.
Interesting. It was also suggested on this website that "magic" is also a good vehicle to teach rationality. Do you think there are any other things that can be classified as the same?
Perhaps a list of characteristics that can be used to judge an activity as a good for rationality development?