EA - Epistemics-Improving Activities for Groups and Friends by ChanaMessinger

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Epistemics-Improving Activities for Groups and Friends, published by ChanaMessinger on October 10, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. A list I've accumulated from multiple places, so can't vouch for all of them, and definitely there's no empirical evidence I know of for these improving epistemics, but I wanted to collect the list anyway. The obvious place to do these is in student groups, but I think limiting them there is a mistake. I think we all can benefit from honing our skills, plus a bunch of these are just fun. If you play board games or do Puzzled Pint with your friends or coworkers, then these can just be part of that part of your life. Will be editing and adding to this over time - what would you recommend? Activities Thinking Physics questions Fermi estimates / Estimathons Sample estimathon questions Rules for estimathons from Berkeley, which probably came from Jane Street List of lists of Fermi problems Calibration training Sage Calibration Activity (my current favorite) Scout Mindset Calibration Questions Open Philanthropy's Calibration Questions I have more if you DM, don't want everyone to know all the good questions ahead of time :) Team Forecasting - really excited about this, watch this space, but in the meantime, nothing stopping you from just picking a question from Metaculus or Manifold and discussing together I had a great time recently pastcasting a question with a friend, which had the added benefits of getting both of us smoe knowledge about the current conflict in Ethiopia Games Wits and Wagers Murder, She Bet Betting Market Game Night Poker Talking Explain or draw how something works, notice where you falter, let someone pick up the slack from there Writing Fact posts Minimal trust investigations Learning by Writing Related: Putting Ideas Into Words Learning by writing in groups Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.