The answers suggesting “this shouldn’t be a test you can study for” seem very misguided. This is a yellow belt, not a black belt. If you think you can become a card-carrying Rationalist without studying books, you are mistaken.
I would expect a battery of short-answer questions, maybe 6 hours/75 questions. Prove the Pythagorean Theorem. What is Bayes’ Theorem? Is Pascal’s Wager accurate? What impact do human emotions have in decision making? If humans evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys? Was George Washington a myth?
There is an aesthetic desire for a more flashy test, a gom jabbar for the rationalist. I would expect that would be an intermediate test between the yellow belt and the black belt. The various “Explain this mysterious system” questions are good, so I’ll suggest some puzzle where “what do you think you know and why do you think you know it” is the key to the solution.
The answers suggesting “this shouldn’t be a test you can study for” seem very misguided. This is a yellow belt, not a black belt. If you think you can become a card-carrying Rationalist without studying books, you are mistaken.
I would expect a battery of short-answer questions, maybe 6 hours/75 questions. Prove the Pythagorean Theorem. What is Bayes’ Theorem? Is Pascal’s Wager accurate? What impact do human emotions have in decision making? If humans evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys? Was George Washington a myth?
There is an aesthetic desire for a more flashy test, a gom jabbar for the rationalist. I would expect that would be an intermediate test between the yellow belt and the black belt. The various “Explain this mysterious system” questions are good, so I’ll suggest some puzzle where “what do you think you know and why do you think you know it” is the key to the solution.