In my opinion, the biggest shift in the study of rationality since the Sequences were published were a change in focus from “bad math” biases (anchoring, availability, base rate neglect etc.) to socially-driven biases.
Funny enough, when I did a reread through the sequence, I saw a huge number of little ways EY was pointing to various socially driven biases, which I’d missed the first time around. I think it might have been a framing thing, where because it didn’t feel like those bits were the main point of the essays, I smashed them all into “Don’t be dumb/conformist” (a previous notion I could round off to).
Funny enough, when I did a reread through the sequence, I saw a huge number of little ways EY was pointing to various socially driven biases, which I’d missed the first time around. I think it might have been a framing thing, where because it didn’t feel like those bits were the main point of the essays, I smashed them all into “Don’t be dumb/conformist” (a previous notion I could round off to).
Also great review.