wedrifid comments on POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum - Less Wrong

54 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2012 06:50AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 19 January 2012 01:52:36PM *  24 points [-]

Sometime ago you believed, correctly IMO, that you need a way of testing rationality skills first, and only then get busy on the exercises. What made you change your mind? (I hope it wasn't something like "we need to push ahead asap".) What's the current plan for preventing the slide into epistemic viciousness? (I hope it isn't something like "we will be smart and won't let it happen".)

Comment author: wedrifid 19 January 2012 04:05:26PM 6 points [-]

Sometime ago you believed, correctly IMO, that you need a way of testing rationality skills first, and only then get busy on the exercises.

This is something that I was expecting them to do - or at least attempt - in the rationality bootcamp they ran last year. Yet they seemed to have lost all interest in testing by the time the camp came around. It seemed like a waste of potential.