The usual caveats of “what do you mean by rationality?” seem likely to crop up immediately here. (i.e. epistemic vs instrumental). “Being able to form accurate beliefs” and “Being able to form good plans in confusing domains” seem like two main things you might want to train.
I think it’s plausible that superforecasting (and “forming accurate beliefs” in general) doesn’t lead to overwhelmingly great good life outcomes, but is still, like, a skill that is worth gaining for the same reason many other skills are: it’s valuable to other people, and you might get paid for it (either by being directly economically valuable, or longterm-public-good valuable so philanthropists would subsidize it).
How to Measure Anything seems to lay out one particular set of skills that fit at the intersection of epistemic and instrumental rationality. It doesn’t give “exercises” but I think is designed for an environment (i.e. making decisions for organizations) where you have a reasonable stream of actions+feedback loops, albeit on a slower timescale.
The Hammer Time sequence is the obvious LessWrong place to start.
The usual caveats of “what do you mean by rationality?” seem likely to crop up immediately here. (i.e. epistemic vs instrumental). “Being able to form accurate beliefs” and “Being able to form good plans in confusing domains” seem like two main things you might want to train.
I think it’s plausible that superforecasting (and “forming accurate beliefs” in general) doesn’t lead to overwhelmingly great good life outcomes, but is still, like, a skill that is worth gaining for the same reason many other skills are: it’s valuable to other people, and you might get paid for it (either by being directly economically valuable, or longterm-public-good valuable so philanthropists would subsidize it).
How to Measure Anything seems to lay out one particular set of skills that fit at the intersection of epistemic and instrumental rationality. It doesn’t give “exercises” but I think is designed for an environment (i.e. making decisions for organizations) where you have a reasonable stream of actions+feedback loops, albeit on a slower timescale.
The Hammer Time sequence is the obvious LessWrong place to start.