In a couple of weeks I’ll be giving a small (~50m) presentation about LW community on “social sciences sunday” in Saint Petersburg.
Target audience—students, teachers and young recearcher mostly from social sciences and humanities.
I’m planning to at least mention in passing:
1) rationality: epistemological and practical division
2) virtues of rationality
3) big part of learning is by osmosis
4) about sequences ⇒ some ideas I found engaging (but those that are at the same time would be easier to explain in 10 minutes)- definetely about inferential distances and looking wise
I’m not sure LW is a good entry point for people who are turned away by a few technical terms. Responding to unfamiliar scientific concepts with an immediate surge of curiosity is probably a trait I share with the majority of LW’ers.
I am going to spend some more time prepairing and would probably have some good ideas, but I would be really great to have opinions from others. Am I missing something? Or if anyone had relevant experience?
Request for advices on small presentation about LW community
In a couple of weeks I’ll be giving a small (~50m) presentation about LW community on “social sciences sunday” in Saint Petersburg.
Target audience—students, teachers and young recearcher mostly from social sciences and humanities.
I’m planning to at least mention in passing:
1) rationality: epistemological and practical division
2) virtues of rationality
3) big part of learning is by osmosis
4) about sequences ⇒ some ideas I found engaging (but those that are at the same time would be easier to explain in 10 minutes)- definetely about inferential distances and looking wise
maybe mention Milgrams experiments or anecdote about Pain and Gain motivation
5) study hall (I tried it just for a bit), meetups, related projects—CFAR (anything else?), International Insights, slatestarcodex?
There is also this:
I am going to spend some more time prepairing and would probably have some good ideas, but I would be really great to have opinions from others. Am I missing something? Or if anyone had relevant experience?