evolution-is-just-a-theorem:

This is a draft (obviously).

Open Problems in Rationality

I’m not claiming that any of these problems are easy, unique to rationalists, or even solvable.

1. Long term follow through. Given a person who wants to make a long term change (in their habits, lifestyle, etc.) how do you cause them to actually do it.
2. How do we get depressed people care? (Maybe should just be “people with mental health issues?” Do anxious people find it much harder to create appointments?
3. How do we detect completely broken personal epistemologies?
4. Internalizing insight: Given a large amount of plausibly useful advice/wisdom/insights, how does one internalize it? How does one turn it into changes in behavior or thought patterns?
5. Novel intervention effect: New interventions start out very successful, then rapidly regress to uselessness.
6. Causing things to happen: if someone commits to doing a thing / causing it to happen, there is still an excellent chance that thing will not happen, even if doing it is relatively trivial.
7. Predictions: how do we become more accurate forecasters?

you join with all the other overdetermined currents reinventing/reviving the (post-)Christian church and reinvent/revive the (post-)Christian church, probably