You're right. "Has read a majority of the sequences so that there is a high probability that this specific sequence is among them" would have been more precise.
While it was an exaggeration "extreme distortion" seems like a harsh judgement.
Edit: oh sorry - I i didn't mean to imply all the sequences are necessary for understanding. I'll fix the sentence.
Having to read the "majority of the sequences" is still an extreme distortion. It's enough to have a look at the (single) linked post.
Does anyone know of a good article that illustrates how society is generally irrational, and how making society more rational would have huge benefits, because it'd be a very high level action?
I'm writing an essay about how to improve education, and one of my proposals is that a core part of the curriculum should be rationality. I believe that doing this would have huge benefits to society, and want to explain why I think this, but I'm having trouble. Any thoughts?
Edit: Part of Raising the Sanity Waterline talks about common ways in which people are irrational. However, they're all links to longer Less Wrong articles. Preferably, I'd like to illustrate it in a few sentences/paragraphs.