The world certainly needs more really easy intros to rationality like this one. Not sure it needs them in blog form, though. Rationality has tons of blogs and superlong texts. Wouldn’t this stand out much more as a poster, a comic book or a podcast?
My guess is the most benefit stands to be created by packaging rationality in forms that make it accessible beyond this tiny minority of young English-speaking childless abstract thinkers who read more than 98% of the popularion.
If you’re fluent in another language, work in that. If you can turn rationality into standup comedy, go for it. If you’re a member of some specific tribe (whether it is high school students, truckers, pensioners or whatever), translate rationality into their style of conversation, use their problems in your examples and you can do a world of good.
As for the medium, I think my comparative advantage in material-creation may be in text format, but this seems to be the case for lots of people in the current rationality-sphere (e.g. Scott, Sarah, Paul), so it’s definitely less of an advantage in this specific circle of people.
I can try doing some more image-related things to supplement these studies as well in the future, though (I made the graphics for the biases in the beginning).
For introducing raitonality, it definitely looks like have a huge amount of untapped “media-space” to go into. I think it would be good to have a pros/cons look at what different mediums offer. (EX: Comics are fun to read, lower barrier to entry. Blog posts target people who’re probably more likely to get more involved with other texts, etc.)
Excellent work! I really love it.
The world certainly needs more really easy intros to rationality like this one. Not sure it needs them in blog form, though. Rationality has tons of blogs and superlong texts. Wouldn’t this stand out much more as a poster, a comic book or a podcast?
My guess is the most benefit stands to be created by packaging rationality in forms that make it accessible beyond this tiny minority of young English-speaking childless abstract thinkers who read more than 98% of the popularion.
If you’re fluent in another language, work in that. If you can turn rationality into standup comedy, go for it. If you’re a member of some specific tribe (whether it is high school students, truckers, pensioners or whatever), translate rationality into their style of conversation, use their problems in your examples and you can do a world of good.
Glad you think this is helpful!
As for the medium, I think my comparative advantage in material-creation may be in text format, but this seems to be the case for lots of people in the current rationality-sphere (e.g. Scott, Sarah, Paul), so it’s definitely less of an advantage in this specific circle of people.
I can try doing some more image-related things to supplement these studies as well in the future, though (I made the graphics for the biases in the beginning).
For introducing raitonality, it definitely looks like have a huge amount of untapped “media-space” to go into. I think it would be good to have a pros/cons look at what different mediums offer. (EX: Comics are fun to read, lower barrier to entry. Blog posts target people who’re probably more likely to get more involved with other texts, etc.)