A Guide to Rationality, from Basic to Advanced

This is meant to outline and link to a series of tutorials on the subject of rationality. It will cover more breadth and depth than my current page on Thinking Skills.

Stuff in non-final order for now:

Part 0, (Optional) Why this is a thing:
 * What we are
 * Why we (decide to, or must) do things (like this)

Part 1, Working on our Knowledge:
 * Basics of Epistemology
 * Basics of Analytical Thought:
 * language, semantics, logic
 * More advanced Epistemology

Part 2, Thinking of what to do, Problem Solving, etc.:
 * Means-Ends Chains
 * Goal Oriented Strategy (far end of chain)
 * Opportunity Oriented Strategy (near end of chain)
 * knowledge, expertise is important
 * "brainstorming" all possible forms of solution (refer to "variables" in critical thinking)
 * hybridizing the two strategies
 * Paved with good intentions

Part 3, Changing Minds (the right ways): Part 4, Changing Minds (the wrong ways):
 * communication, what can and can't be communicated
 * the science
 * my method:
 * how I think mind-changing works
 * need everyone on as much of the same epistemology as possible
 * helping other people excel at rationality (like teaching them this guide, how to figure out what is true, how to problem solve and plan, and how to changing others minds)
 * need everyone on common semantics
 * need everyone to be able to articulate each others positions deeply
 * need to understand the values and psychology involved
 * explore for the underlying or core points
 * use thorough Bayesian Reasoning on those points (finding and using all the relevant facts and logic)
 * re-reading your own replies, compare it to what you are responding to, look for logical ways of avoiding your own criticism
 * Steelmanning, balancing hardcore logic with charitable lenience (to intuition, correctable errors etc.)
 * repeat the process if necessary.  Never stop the steps of understanding each other, or else it will derail
 * spectrums: highly certain to highly speculative, highly obvious to highly expertise-intensive (and in easier less-risky situations you can get away with less intense methodology)
 * methods that shouldn't work
 * the social aspects of disagreement
 * the meta conflict, conflicting theories of how to handle conflict:
 * propagandists
 * "post-rationalists"
 * stagnant conflict avoiders
 * abusiveness
 * dogmatists
 * assumption stacking (VS exploration)


 * posers, "just asking questions", fake or manipulative rationalism
 * how we should handle all of the above and related issues