Hi,
I’ve arrived here through HPMoR at least a year ago, but I was pretty intimidated by the size of the Sequences—I do try to catch up now. I’m a medical student from Hungary and I’ve never learnt maths beyond the high school requirements (I do intend to resolve this since it seems like a requirement here?).
I’m here to learn how to effectively change my mind and have intelligent discussion. I probably won’t be active until later, as I don’t think I would be able to present my reasonings in a sufficiently convincing way, and I already see a few points where I will politely disagree with the community average.
My ultimate goal is to understand how to help other people update on evidence. Disease prevention is quite close to my heart, and while it is a common argument that you shouldn’t question people’s decisions that are not harming other people (at least directly), I’m not convinced that you can call it an informed decision to e. g. smoke when one is full of rationalisations and such. I’m interested in learning/developing a method that is time- and cost-efficient for helping people change their own minds—this is not only a rationality problem but also a communication one, as I have to present myself just to right way, not being overly arrogant or meek, make it look like the person got to the point of updating on their own etc. I’m not hoping to find this method soon, though.
Hi, I’ve arrived here through HPMoR at least a year ago, but I was pretty intimidated by the size of the Sequences—I do try to catch up now. I’m a medical student from Hungary and I’ve never learnt maths beyond the high school requirements (I do intend to resolve this since it seems like a requirement here?).
I’m here to learn how to effectively change my mind and have intelligent discussion. I probably won’t be active until later, as I don’t think I would be able to present my reasonings in a sufficiently convincing way, and I already see a few points where I will politely disagree with the community average.
My ultimate goal is to understand how to help other people update on evidence. Disease prevention is quite close to my heart, and while it is a common argument that you shouldn’t question people’s decisions that are not harming other people (at least directly), I’m not convinced that you can call it an informed decision to e. g. smoke when one is full of rationalisations and such. I’m interested in learning/developing a method that is time- and cost-efficient for helping people change their own minds—this is not only a rationality problem but also a communication one, as I have to present myself just to right way, not being overly arrogant or meek, make it look like the person got to the point of updating on their own etc. I’m not hoping to find this method soon, though.