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22 Post author: JonathanLivengood 08 December 2012 10:45PM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 20 December 2012 07:40:57PM 0 points [-]

Ah, okay, that makes sense then.

I think part of why I think I'm confused is that none of the courses you proposed are focused on psychology (heuristics and biases being the standard recommendation). Any reason for that?

Comment author: JonathanLivengood 20 December 2012 08:08:32PM 1 point [-]

That's a good point. Looks like an oversight on my part. I was probably overly focused on the formal side that aims to describe normatively correct reasoning. (Even doing that, I missed some things, e.g. decision theory.) I hope to write up a more detailed, concrete, and positive proposal in the next couple of days. I will include at least one -- and probably two -- courses that look at failures of good reasoning in that recommendation.

Comment author: jsalvatier 22 December 2012 02:06:47AM *  1 point [-]

I look forward to it :)

Another thing that comes to mind, is that if you're advising the curriculum committee and not directly in charge, you may want to strategize about how best to convince them to take a more lesswrongy attitude. Things that spring to mind:

  • getting multiple people to say similar things
  • making the same argument repeatedly and in private with members of the committee
  • getting a speaker (luke?) to come in and make the case
  • finding articles that make the same points you do
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