BenLowell comments on Outreach Thread - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 06 March 2016 10:18PM

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Comment author: BenLowell 08 March 2016 01:36:00AM *  9 points [-]

This isn't very broad, but it went much better than I expected.

I wrote a series of letters to my grandmother describing my experiences at CFAR and describing what I learned. She is finding them very valuable and says that she has been discussing and sharing them with her friends to understand the ideas better. She wishes that she heard a lot of the ideas much earlier.

I'm so far only finished writing about half of my experiences and it has been wonderful. Rewriting everything I learned is helping me connect it in new ways. Since my grandmother doesn't know very much science, I haven't used much as much jargon, or have been very patient to explain all of the small pieces. It's good for learning what the inferential distances are.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 08 March 2016 03:35:18AM 1 point [-]

Very glad to hear you're having this positive impact! Would you consider posting revised versions of the letters here, with personal details taken out? I think this would be a good resource for the community.