The easiest thing to do with complete newcomers is to get them to read things. There are plenty of popular psychology books that will help pique peoples’ interests—I like the ones by Dan Ariely, you can also find more in the Ravenclaw section of the Rationalist Bookshelf. If they like philosophizing, they might like the Humans’ Guide to Words sequence on LessWrong.
For actual exercises, I think one of the most interesting things I’ve done was try staring into someone’s eyes for twenty minutes by the clock. Or trying to actually work out to do, on some things I waqs having trouble deciding on, by estimating probabilities and trying to think about relative utility.
Also, yes, this is sort of the problem CFAR is working on—but I’m not sure what they do for very very introductory material.
The easiest thing to do with complete newcomers is to get them to read things. There are plenty of popular psychology books that will help pique peoples’ interests—I like the ones by Dan Ariely, you can also find more in the Ravenclaw section of the Rationalist Bookshelf. If they like philosophizing, they might like the Humans’ Guide to Words sequence on LessWrong.
For actual exercises, I think one of the most interesting things I’ve done was try staring into someone’s eyes for twenty minutes by the clock. Or trying to actually work out to do, on some things I waqs having trouble deciding on, by estimating probabilities and trying to think about relative utility.
Also, yes, this is sort of the problem CFAR is working on—but I’m not sure what they do for very very introductory material.