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People engage more with an argument when they generate its key steps themselves than when the same argument is imposed on them.

Drawn from what Neel Nanda said

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education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

What Neel Nanda actually said

  1. Neel Nanda Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind
    It's a lot easier for someone to engage with an argument if they generated the key steps themselves by answering my questions - if imposed by me, it sparks contrarianism and defensiveness

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