Generally, I focus on these four reasons to take classes:
It is required for a degree you want.
You want to interact with the professor.
You want to interact with the other students.
You want to have external pressure to complete some tasks.
Some people take classes because they want to learn the subject the class is on, but unless that unpacks into the latter three reasons, there’s probably a better way to accomplish it.
As mentioned by others, it looks to me like this class does well on all of those reasons (but I’m going off of your one-lecture impression of the professors). This is probably the best place in Yale to meet interested students for your rationality meetup- and the professors are probably good network hubs for this.
As for feminist critiques of rationality, the syllabus lists the reading right there! This is week 1, and this is week 2. (The first one has limited pages in the preview- I doubt you’ll be able to read all 51 pages of the second chapter- but you should be able to find it in the library.)
Generally, I focus on these four reasons to take classes:
It is required for a degree you want.
You want to interact with the professor.
You want to interact with the other students.
You want to have external pressure to complete some tasks.
Some people take classes because they want to learn the subject the class is on, but unless that unpacks into the latter three reasons, there’s probably a better way to accomplish it.
As mentioned by others, it looks to me like this class does well on all of those reasons (but I’m going off of your one-lecture impression of the professors). This is probably the best place in Yale to meet interested students for your rationality meetup- and the professors are probably good network hubs for this.
As for feminist critiques of rationality, the syllabus lists the reading right there! This is week 1, and this is week 2. (The first one has limited pages in the preview- I doubt you’ll be able to read all 51 pages of the second chapter- but you should be able to find it in the library.)