“Guess on why rationality is not more popular (there are no pamphlets)” by Christopher King

First of all I should note that this post is just a guess! I have not run any experiments or anything.

But anyways my guess for why rationality is not more popular is that the current expositions are super long! Yudkowsky's sequences are about length of the christian bible. CFAR's workshops are 4.5 days.

I think something the length of a pamphlet that you could hand out to people would work better!

Just as an example I had Claude Fable 5 write two pamphlets. They look pretty fine to me as is, to be honest, but I'm not suggesting we use these exact ones. This is just to demonstrate the length and style I'm thinking of! In particular note how it quickly gets to some useful call-to-actions (page 7 of a pamphlet, which have much shorter pages than books).

There are 2 details boxes here which are omitted from this narration. The boxes have the titles "Pamphlet for general audience" and "Pamphlet for those who know high school algebra".

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First published:
July 16th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EmKX9zByQq62TTcDv/guess-on-why-rationality-is-not-more-popular-there-are-no

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.