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Coursera is great but you're going to miss a lot of opportunities by limiting yourself to just that platform. For instance, it hasn't been widely advertised, b
by Dowwie 7y ago
Coursera is great but you're going to miss a lot of opportunities by limiting yourself to just that platform.
For instance, it hasn't been widely advertised, but you can essentially take Steven Pinker's 2020 course at Harvard on Rationale: https://stevenpinker.com/classes/rationality-gened-1066 https://stevenpinker.com/classes/rationality-gened-1066
There's upwards of 20 hours of video on this course alone. You don't get that kind of depth from most Coursera MOOCs. Further, the syllabus helps narrow down a vast subject to a few months of effort and there is no better design for learning it.
Critical reasoning skills are essential! Why not learn from one of the great thinkers on the subject?
This course has the potential of ascending to the upper echelon of MOOCs. I really hope that the content doesn't get taken down. It doesn't seem downloadable..
- kkarakk 7y agoSeeing as how the course is hosted on a proprietary video hosting service called Panopto that is a SaaS platform i think the chance of this lecture surviving for even 5 years is vanishingly small Atleast coursera courses are easy to rip for later use...
- Eugeleo 7y agoLooks great! Is this the rationality often mentioned (and propagated) on LessWrong, Slate Star Codex and similar?
- Dowwie 7y agoYes it is