Something that seems relevant is this attempt I made a while back as an friendly intro to rationality.
I think that you might be trying to get across a lot of information here. I think this might be fine in certain cases for conversation, but I definitely wouldn’t recommend trying to send this as-is to people. Also, a lot of the mention of community norms / etc. seem like potential turn-offs.
What may be of interest is strategies that have worked for me in piquing people’s interest:
Starting with cognitive psychology. People seem naturally interested to this area of study, and if you can present your group as one that has cool info worth delving into, they get interested. If you then follow up with this idea of “mental strategies” that can boost your thinking, you can move into basic rationality from there.
For AI risk, focusing on acknowledging the media strawmans from pop culture and trying to focus on how poor specification can cause problems. (EX: pointing to how code does what it says and not what you mean).
Something that seems relevant is this attempt I made a while back as an friendly intro to rationality.
I think that you might be trying to get across a lot of information here. I think this might be fine in certain cases for conversation, but I definitely wouldn’t recommend trying to send this as-is to people. Also, a lot of the mention of community norms / etc. seem like potential turn-offs.
What may be of interest is strategies that have worked for me in piquing people’s interest:
Starting with cognitive psychology. People seem naturally interested to this area of study, and if you can present your group as one that has cool info worth delving into, they get interested. If you then follow up with this idea of “mental strategies” that can boost your thinking, you can move into basic rationality from there.
For AI risk, focusing on acknowledging the media strawmans from pop culture and trying to focus on how poor specification can cause problems. (EX: pointing to how code does what it says and not what you mean).