I recently had the privilege of a 1-hour speaking slot at SPARC, a yearly two-week camp for top high school math students.
Here's the video: Wisdom for Smart Teens
Instead of picking a single topic, I indulged in a bunch of mini-topics that I feel passionate about:
- Original Sight
- "Emperor has no clothes" moments
- Epistemology is cool
- Think quantitatively
- Be specific / use examples
- Organizations are inefficient
- How I use Bayesianism
- Be empathizable
- Communication
- Simplify
- Startups
- What you want
Hello, this is my first post on this website, I am currently sixteen. So to help me discover the concept of this website better, I would like someone to point me to recent posts considered as "important" by you (this is always purely objective, I think). Since you wrote you wish you had known about Less Wrong when you were 15/16, I think you were unconsciously talking about several particular things you've seen, and watching them could help me.
Welcome to Less Wrong.
You've given me quite a responsibility here and I'm not sure if I'm qualified as the Less Wrong Ambassador for Smart Teens. This probably deserves a thread of its own.
Anyway, I'll give it my best shot.
The Sequences are often considered the main point of entrance for Less Wrong. I don't quite agree (I wouldn't have read all of that when I was 16, I'm sure), but if you can stomach it: best start reading now. Another point of entry is [Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality], which is more accessible but the style isn't for everyone... (read more)