Has any one been working on the basics of rationality or summarizing the sequences? I think it would be helpful if someone created a sequence in which they cover the less wrong core concepts concisely as well as providing practical advice on how to apply rationality skills related to these concepts at the 5 second level.
A useful format for the posts might be: overview of concept, example in which people frequently fail at being rational because they innately don't follow the concept and then advice on how to apply the concept. Or another format might be: principle underlying multiple less wrong concepts, examples in which people fail at being rational because they don't follow the concepts and then advice on how to deal with the principle and become more rational.
I think that all these posts should summed up with or contain pratical methods on how to improve rationality skills and ways to quantify and measure these improvements. The results of CFAR workshops could probably provide a basis for these methods.
Lots of links to the related less wrong posts or wikis would also be useful.
The Rationality eBook is out now, which is an improvement over where things stood four years ago.
The nice thing about summarizing the Sequences / separating the useful concepts from blog posts / writing new explanations for those concepts is that it's a thing that you can do, and partial completion is useful. The wiki is the natural place to host this.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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