Teaching Suggestions?

I've tried explaining LW stuff to my high school friends, and had the most success explaining map and territory, cached thoughts, and what is meant by truth/evidence. But don't try to cram too much into one hour.

A lot of people will think (due to hindsight bias, I assume) that this stuff is obvious once you've explained it. This means they won't take it as seriously and are less likely to check out follow-up materials. I would start by asking them (if the format makes this possible) what they think "truth" and "evidence" mean. Usually they run out of ideas within 30 seconds, and then are more interested in what you have to say about it.

You can't fit very much into just one hour. To maximize your effect, make the hour entertaining, and leave them with a handout and links that will make some of them spend much more time following up.

Here is a presentation that was used in a similar setting before.

I recommend trying to cover less than you currently plan. Just one or two big ideas should be more than enough.

Second on 4 topics in an hour being too much. That only leaves 15 minutes for a topic. I'd have trouble fitting a good explanation of any of those in to 15 minutes, and high school kids will probably have follow-up questions that make it more time consuming.

Biases is wonderful, but I think it also needs the biggest block of time to really be effective - teaching one or two biases doesn't help a lot, and risks giving them Fully General Counterarguments. No student should be trusted with that sort of armament ;)

I'd personally pick two of your topics to focus on, then have a few related biases you can include to stretch things out if everything goes well - I've found that having flexible plans that can stretch/compress is very good for dealing with groups that are likely to ask a lot of questions, or for an informal context where people will get distracted.

My personally, I'd be biased towards "make beliefs pay rent" (as that was most useful to me) and "map and territory" :)

I think you've got far too much planned for 1 hour.

Map and territory, reductionism and what having a belief should mean (paying rent) are all much, much too complicated topics to cover in a one hour class for kids (it's not ever close), even if you just picked one of these topics. (I've been teaching college students for 14 years.)

Consider teaching simpler topics such as ignore sunk costs, tradeoffs are everywhere, "measure twice and cut once" and even "think before you act".