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It's not that hard.

Go through the list of congnitive biases, but first look at usual problems of how people try to reason ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/ ), then expand on that.

https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/ - reading http://www.rationality.org/ - workshops

But the question is, does it _actually_ help that much? I mean, yeah, you'll have a neigh perfect model of the world, you can break down subjects, approach topics you've never dreamed of, but you'll find out that life is pretty much meaningless and you're surrounded with a lot of "dumb people", and pretty persistent emergent social structures that are hard to disrupt. And why would you spend a lot of your energy/life to try to make it better, if it'll still stay the same purposeless, senseless, pointless crude biological replication-driven frustrating chaos?

Anyway, 90 minutes is pretty long, but of course experiment design is always a hard problem.



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