I hope that rationality training would make learning the other things easier, but this would have to be tested, of course.
This is something both the author and most Less Wrongers (including myself) assume, but we really don’t have all the much (scientific) evidence for this belief (that I know of).
I am sceptical that you can teach rationality on its own in school as just one more subject in the curriculum. It needs to be folded in to every other subject, and then maybe some classes focussing on rationality itself will be useful.
I hope that rationality training would make learning the other things easier, but this would have to be tested, of course.
This is something both the author and most Less Wrongers (including myself) assume, but we really don’t have all the much (scientific) evidence for this belief (that I know of).
I am sceptical that you can teach rationality on its own in school as just one more subject in the curriculum. It needs to be folded in to every other subject, and then maybe some classes focussing on rationality itself will be useful.