200 – The Educated Mind with Brandon Hendrickson

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 Learning

Science Is Weird – a sprawling online science course that helps kids fall in love with the world

Paid Bonus content – Brandon Hendrickson on Writing a Contest Winning ACX Book Review; and Being Treated Like a Redacted Catagory (spoilers – the redacted category is women)

OTHER LINKS

Kurzgesagt – YouTube channel teaching science for humans

The SciFi Podcast

100 Words very short story by Eneasz Brodski

The Time I Failed To Join A Cult, autobiographical post by Eneasz

0:00:23 – The Educated Mind

2:03:40 – Less Wrong Posts

2:20:04 – Guild of the Rose Update

2:21:31 – Thank the Patron



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LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Arguing “By Definition”

Where to Draw the Boundary?

Next Sequence Posts:

Entropy, and Short Codes

Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace