Hi Gleb. It’s been 9 years since you wrote this post. If you are still interested in strategies to promote rationality broadly, I have an idea which I’m starting work on. Basically it’s about creating an layperson-friendly system for empirically evaluating predictive mathematical models of recurring phenomena. My thesis is that ordinary people are currently unable to separate knowledge from confidently-stated BS in most topics, and that the two are separable by shaping knowledge into predictive models and testing those predictive models against subsequently-measured data. I’m looking for partners. Would you like to have a conversation?
Hi Gleb. It’s been 9 years since you wrote this post. If you are still interested in strategies to promote rationality broadly, I have an idea which I’m starting work on. Basically it’s about creating an layperson-friendly system for empirically evaluating predictive mathematical models of recurring phenomena. My thesis is that ordinary people are currently unable to separate knowledge from confidently-stated BS in most topics, and that the two are separable by shaping knowledge into predictive models and testing those predictive models against subsequently-measured data. I’m looking for partners. Would you like to have a conversation?