How I thought of this ( == what I’m actually trying to solve) : The main value people will get is probably from getting into a community, more than what they’d get from a course of a few hours, by far, I expect. Perhaps you have some other idea on how to do this
Neglectedness.
The prior for deprioritizing the topic they keep hearing about in social media.
For example, like this
Changing “is this doing good” (a yes/no question which invites answers like “med tech? yeah that’s good!”),
with “how much good is this doing?” or “can we do 100x as much good with the same effort?” (which invites comparing different directions)
Ideas which I assume you’re not interested in, but I’ll post anyway and tell me if I’m wrong:
Advertising programs like the Atlas Fellowship.
Nudging them away from studying at university as a default don’t-think-about-it action
Other generic advice which isn’t related to important problems in the world, for example
Productivity
Career
Decision making
Mental health
“There is more than one thing that could destroy the world, so before picking one to work on, let’s compare them”
Because lots of people are worried about the world ending already, I think, and this is the nudge I’d add
Read hpmor (full pitch).
How I thought of this ( == what I’m actually trying to solve) : The main value people will get is probably from getting into a community, more than what they’d get from a course of a few hours, by far, I expect. Perhaps you have some other idea on how to do this