The first thing that comes to my mind is Eliezer’s Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People in the sequences. So in this case we risk only giving the politicians a better weapon to attack their opponents instead of a tool to find the truth.
It would seem like almost any tool of effective reasoning could be harmful in this respect. Does this mean we should discourage politicians from obtaining any such knowledge? It seems there already is a strong selection filter against politicians that exhibit such skills; I would have naively thought this is a bad thing for rationality and humanity in general.
The first thing that comes to my mind is Eliezer’s Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People in the sequences. So in this case we risk only giving the politicians a better weapon to attack their opponents instead of a tool to find the truth.
It would seem like almost any tool of effective reasoning could be harmful in this respect. Does this mean we should discourage politicians from obtaining any such knowledge? It seems there already is a strong selection filter against politicians that exhibit such skills; I would have naively thought this is a bad thing for rationality and humanity in general.
No, it means Eliezer should be giving the lecture.