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Rationality 101 - how would you introduce a person to the rationalist concepts? What are the best topics to learn/explain first?

2 Post author: rayalez 03 March 2016 10:33AM

How do you think curriculum of rationality 101 should look like? I want to make a brief course(a series of short animated youtube videos), ideally on the level accessible to a normal 14-17 year old person. Can you help me to make the list of concepts I should start with?

Comments (16)

Comment author: JohnC2015 24 March 2016 03:42:21AM 0 points [-]

As a newbie on Rationality, your idea of making YouTube videos should be great! Well, I suggest you'll start with the definition of terms and how the terms are being different from the norms. Since the target audience age bracket is 14 -17 yrs old, it would be better to present it with several illustrations, but not to that point that it's becoming comical.

Looking forward to this. Please notify me. :)

Comment author: Sarginlove 22 March 2016 05:34:22PM 1 point [-]

Checking blogs about becoming more rational could help in explaining this better. I have read several post on Intentionalinsight.org this has helped me a lot they try their best in explaining better what Rationality concept it's all about.

Comment author: ChristianKl 22 March 2016 06:43:03PM 0 points [-]

How has it helped you specifically?

Comment author: Sarginlove 24 March 2016 12:49:43AM *  1 point [-]

I have read blogs on intentional insight which has helped me in seeing reality clearly, knowing the various ways i could become successful while making effective decisions. I have also learnt how i could possibly control my emotions i must admit this has helped me a lot.

Comment author: beatricesargin 22 March 2016 04:46:18PM 1 point [-]

I do know that the Intentional Insights have a lot to offer in sharing their thoughts about this, reflecting on this post there are a lots of mixed values of experience that the Intentional Insights can bring to the lime light.

Comment author: Sarginlove 22 March 2016 05:26:26PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah i agree with you they also have good blogs which could help us in becoming more rational.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 06 March 2016 10:09:51PM 0 points [-]

This is something we at Intentional Insights have been working on quite a bit. You're welcome to PM me or email me at gleb@intentionalinsights.org

Comment author: Sarginlove 22 March 2016 05:29:47PM 1 point [-]

Yeah that's true i also appreciate their efforts in writing good blogs with lot of ideals that could help us become more rational thinkers and also successful in future.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 22 March 2016 08:23:23PM 0 points [-]

Thanks, and I appreciate your efforts on behalf of spreading these ideas as an Intentional Insights participant :-) Glad you've joined Less Wrong!

Comment author: Viliam 03 March 2016 11:15:54PM *  4 points [-]

52 Concepts To Add To Your Cognitive Toolkit -- a list of useful ideas

EDIT: The idea is that you could select some of these concepts, and make one video per concept.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 03 March 2016 08:57:37PM 3 points [-]

http://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ <- Summed up succinctly: View disagreement as information exchange rather than a status game.

Reflecting on that post, I have a mixed style of discourse. I view low-information responses as nitpicking - status game-y. Solid contradiction, however, I regard to be useful, and tend to be quite appreciative of. I guess the question is whether low-information responses are useful in their own right, or whether, as a whole, they just produce a lot of noise obscuring more useful information.

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 March 2016 05:39:39PM *  2 points [-]

Tetlock has 10 commandsments for Superforcasters at the end of his book. I think they would make good material for videos.

The are good empirical-based advice.

Comment author: James_Miller 03 March 2016 02:00:58PM 2 points [-]

I wrote a best of LW article for Business Insider that might be helpful.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 03 March 2016 06:19:40PM 2 points [-]

'become a PUA'?

:|

Comment author: James_Miller 03 March 2016 07:58:38PM *  4 points [-]

I probably should have not put that in. I don't remember what I thought (or new) about PUA in 2011.

Comment author: username2 03 March 2016 10:52:28AM 2 points [-]

Start with cognitive biases and show how people fail to choose the correct decision, it will hook his attention. Then say that there are ways to improve your decision making.