Map and territory visual presentation

There's quite a lot of slides. It took me a long time to even flick through all of them. You should go through it once before hand (reading out loud everything you want to say) to check that you can go through it in the available time.

This is quite a good presentation, especially the first half. I'd recommend taking the first 20 or so slides (the impact falls off in the second half, as the presentation jumps from place to place and looks disconnected), adding in a nice conclusion somewhere around slide 22 and putting the link on the front page of LW.

I don't like the comparision of cognitive biases to cryptonite. Biases are no external thread. Biases are a core feature of the way humans reason.

If you learn about these cogntive biases you can correct for them and so make better maps. Our brains are like lenses that can see and counteract their own flaws.

That sounds to me like oversimplification. Just knowing about a bias doesn't stop the bias.

Addition: You also should have less text on slide 29, and less text overall on the later slide. It's too small for an audience to read.

A good rule is 9x9, meaning you have no more than 9 words per line, and 9 lines of text on any slide.

Slide 31 confusing. There are easier, real-world examples you can use for the sunk cost fallacy.

Slides 32 and 33 seem out of place, though that might just be me.

Slide 36: The word "probably" at the end is awkward.

Bayes theorem on slide 40 is far too complicated to explain on one slide. If you want to keep the idea, you'll have to use numbers or people won't understand what you're saying.

Also, I thought this was a pretty good power point! Especially the first 20 slides, and the message of slides 29 and 30.

The law school student slide is an excellent way of tying your presentation to reality and is my go to example as well.

Good stuff. I'm interested - how are you fitting this material into the context of game theory? Is it an undergrad or grad course?

You may want to put a warning before slide 19 for the graphic nature of the images. Some people might react badly to them.

You might also look at some of the classic General Semantics material based on the structural differential, a model of map/territory abstraction.

This is really well done. I don't know the background(s) of your students, but there are some relatively technical terms that you don't fully define (e.g., signalling, updating) but perhaps you'll do so in the course of the presentation.

Other than a minor typo on one of the slides ("people's'"), great visual presentation.

ETA: Just saw that this is for a game theory class, so nevermind about the terms.