Personally, I believe that philosophy and economics are probably the best fields to train rationalists, although there are subsets of CS and statistics (Pearl’s causal modelling) that are also excellent for training rationalists.
I think Psychology, especially heuristics & biases, cognitive psychology, and social psychology should be included.
That’s certainly true, but those are not the mainstays of most psychology curricula (what also hurts, is the types of people who will be your peers). So unless you’re pursuing it at MIT/Caltech, I’d steer away from a psychology major (unless you can go straight into upper-division psych courses, which you can’t at my school)
I think Psychology, especially heuristics & biases, cognitive psychology, and social psychology should be included.
That’s certainly true, but those are not the mainstays of most psychology curricula (what also hurts, is the types of people who will be your peers). So unless you’re pursuing it at MIT/Caltech, I’d steer away from a psychology major (unless you can go straight into upper-division psych courses, which you can’t at my school)