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I am somewhat afraid then, that reading about fallacies won't change my ability to recognize them significantly. Perhaps 'rationality training' should really focus on the editing part, not on the recognizing part. I'll add another question.
Depends how your mind works, I guess. I read about fallacies when I was young and I feel like that helped me recognize them, even without much deliberate practice in recognizing them (but I surely had a lot of accidental & semi-accidental practice).
Recognition is probably more important than the editing part, because the editing part isn't much use without having the "Aha! That's probably a fallacy!" recognitions to edit, and because you might be able to do a good job of intuitively recognizing fallacies even if you can't communicate them to other people cleanly & unambiguously.