DSimon comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSimon 04 December 2012 07:18:51PM *  2 points [-]

It would be wonderful if students had the opportunity to make scientific discoveries on their own.

Yes, absolutely. As shminux points out below, it isn't practical to expect students to (re-)make real scientific discoveries during their training, but that doesn't mean that we can't game-ify scientific training using a simpler universe wherein novel discoveries are a lot closer at hand.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 05 December 2012 03:45:53PM *  1 point [-]

Well the simplest version of this is to do something like play Zendo, but that has a variety of problems, such as the fact that rule sets often connect more to human psychology than anything else.