Making rationality cool = an excellent starting point. I still disagree on the rationality-intelligence thing, though; I think you could teach skills that could still meaningfully be called epistemic/instrumental rationality to people with IQ 100 and below. Not everyone, anymore than it’s possible to persuade everyone from childhood that it’s a good idea to spend money sensibly. (Gaah this is a pet peeve for me). But enough to make the world more awesome.
I’m going to register that disagreement as a bet, and if in 10 years LW is still around and enough has happened that we know who’s right, I will find this comment and collect/lose a Bayes point.
Let’s make a more specific bet: I anticipate that any attempts by CFAR in the next 10 years to broaden the demographic that attends its workshops to include people with IQ within a standard deviation of mean (say in the United States) will fail by their standards. Agree or disagree?
Agree. But “workshops” includes any future instructor-led activities they might do, including shorter formats i.e. 3-hour or 1-day, larger groups, etc.
Making rationality cool = an excellent starting point. I still disagree on the rationality-intelligence thing, though; I think you could teach skills that could still meaningfully be called epistemic/instrumental rationality to people with IQ 100 and below. Not everyone, anymore than it’s possible to persuade everyone from childhood that it’s a good idea to spend money sensibly. (Gaah this is a pet peeve for me). But enough to make the world more awesome.
I’m going to register that disagreement as a bet, and if in 10 years LW is still around and enough has happened that we know who’s right, I will find this comment and collect/lose a Bayes point.
Let’s make a more specific bet: I anticipate that any attempts by CFAR in the next 10 years to broaden the demographic that attends its workshops to include people with IQ within a standard deviation of mean (say in the United States) will fail by their standards. Agree or disagree?
Agree. But “workshops” includes any future instructor-led activities they might do, including shorter formats i.e. 3-hour or 1-day, larger groups, etc.