Know what’d be highly useful? More on practical applications for plain old chimpanzee tribal politics. That is, the whole reason evolution hit upon general intelligence for us in the first place. Call it “micropolitics” to distinguish it from “show business for ugly people.”
I’ve been applying the lessons of LessWrong a fair bit lately in micropolitics. Mostly Wikimedia-related stuff. If I say so myself, I’ve had some recent success putting WYSIWYG back on the agenda, including inspiring a very promising new approach. And a couple of other things that are in progress. But then, Wikimedia and Wikipedia are the deep end as far as quickly learning to work with others goes.
So, how are others going with applying rationality to micropolitics? Remember, you grew that brain at all to do tribal politics. You’re naturally good at this.
Know what’d be highly useful? More on practical applications for plain old chimpanzee tribal politics. That is, the whole reason evolution hit upon general intelligence for us in the first place. Call it “micropolitics” to distinguish it from “show business for ugly people.”
I’ve been applying the lessons of LessWrong a fair bit lately in micropolitics. Mostly Wikimedia-related stuff. If I say so myself, I’ve had some recent success putting WYSIWYG back on the agenda, including inspiring a very promising new approach. And a couple of other things that are in progress. But then, Wikimedia and Wikipedia are the deep end as far as quickly learning to work with others goes.
So, how are others going with applying rationality to micropolitics? Remember, you grew that brain at all to do tribal politics. You’re naturally good at this.