Show notes
We talk with Brandon Hendrickson about his ACX-contest winning book review of The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan. “A novel theory about why schools, as they are now, don’t work.”The winning book review in its original text (also in audio (itunes, spotify))Brandon’s substack – The Lost Tools of LearningScience Is Weird – a sprawling online science course that helps kids fall in love with the worldOTHER LINKSKurzgesagt – YouTube channel teaching science for humansThe SciFi Podcast100 Words very short story by Eneasz BrodskiThe Time I Failed To Join A Cult, autobiographical post by Eneasz0:00:23 – The Educated Mind2:03:40 – Less Wrong Posts2:20:04 – Guild of the Rose Update2:21:31 – Thank the PatronWe now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch)Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The PodcastLessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:Arguing “By Definition”Where to Draw the Boundary?Next Sequence Posts:Entropy, and Short CodesMutual Information, and Density in Thingspace