Desire for accurate beliefs… 2. Mindful living… 3. Initiative and confidence...
I would add one thing: 4) Coordination Is Hard and communication ain’t always easy, either. But catalysing, organizing, and participating effectively in collective activity is a skill that can be acquired with some effort.
How do you convert people engaging with your content into people changing their behavior?
1) Choose effective content… 2) Force decompartamentalization… 3) Foster the impression that individuals influence the world… 4) Channel the community...
Good analysis. Here are some ideas about how to do this at three levels of engagement.
The first level consists of blogs, free online fiction, and contests/competitions targeted at smart high-school students. HPMoR is fun, but I would like to see something a little less fantasy-oriented and with slightly older protagonists. I don’t know, but maybe a novel about students in a rationality dojo. Each of the protagonists is handicapped by a different cognitive bias. They make use of the formal lessons in their everyday lives, and thus gradually become more awesome. I know it sounds a bit formulaic, but a talented writer could probably pull it off.
The second level consists of a summer training program. I would recommend that this training include a physical component. A physical challenge like Outward Bound. But also, the participants should produce some tangible, physical things—items of camp infrastructure, their own meals, whatever.
The third level consists of clubs at universities. Going away to school is a big decompartmentalizing event for most people. Make use of it to extend and to reinforce the summer training session, and also to train and organize a cadre to keep the movement going.
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I would add one thing: 4) Coordination Is Hard and communication ain’t always easy, either. But catalysing, organizing, and participating effectively in collective activity is a skill that can be acquired with some effort.
Good analysis. Here are some ideas about how to do this at three levels of engagement.
The first level consists of blogs, free online fiction, and contests/competitions targeted at smart high-school students. HPMoR is fun, but I would like to see something a little less fantasy-oriented and with slightly older protagonists. I don’t know, but maybe a novel about students in a rationality dojo. Each of the protagonists is handicapped by a different cognitive bias. They make use of the formal lessons in their everyday lives, and thus gradually become more awesome. I know it sounds a bit formulaic, but a talented writer could probably pull it off.
The second level consists of a summer training program. I would recommend that this training include a physical component. A physical challenge like Outward Bound. But also, the participants should produce some tangible, physical things—items of camp infrastructure, their own meals, whatever.
The third level consists of clubs at universities. Going away to school is a big decompartmentalizing event for most people. Make use of it to extend and to reinforce the summer training session, and also to train and organize a cadre to keep the movement going.