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Educating people about rationality: where are we?

Motivation. There are a number of ideas in rationality that seem to me so important and useful that it's worthwhile systematically exposing the general population to them. Off the top of my head, these might include general ideas about better decision making, cognitive biases and information hygiene, and somewhat more...

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Educating people about rationality: where are we?

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Educating people about rationality: where are we?

This is exactly what I wanted; thank you so much for your answer! Some very thoughtful points here, and I feel that I really misjudged how teachable ideas in rationality really are.

Educating people about rationality: where are we?

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Motivation. There are a number of ideas in rationality that seem to me so important and useful that it's worthwhile systematically exposing the general population to them. Off the top of my head, these might include general ideas about better decision making, cognitive biases and information hygiene, and somewhat more technical topics like probability/Bayes, utility, information theory and game theory. And yet, I wouldn't know about many of these without either picking up a book about decision making, or taking an undergraduate course with statistics content or going to a rationality camp!

Question. What resources are there out there to educate people about ideas in rationality? What attempts/barriers are there to introducing more... (read more)