This is no less of a division of labor than alignment research. I like CFAR’s work, AI/bot-augmented prediction markets, twitter’s community notes, and having a million people read HPMOR in spite of tearing down lots of civilizational schelling fences. I do not stack with the people doing more crypto-focused stuff. I think that tuning cognitive strategies and Raemon’s experiments have the lowest hanging fruit.
They were focused on making the world a better place, and a substantial subset (e.g. the hippies) were quite serious about it, but they were just lashing out with their eyes closed, due to lacking a drive to solve coordination problems or form accurate world models (the european enlightenment had the drive, but not the will to drive out nihilism). This was 60 years ago and popular revolutions weren’t yet well-established as senseless lunacy like they are today; they didn’t know that technical solutions were the way to go.
What do you see as the low-hanging co-ordination fruit?
Raising the counter-culture movement seems strange. I didn’t really see them as focused on co-ordination.
This is no less of a division of labor than alignment research. I like CFAR’s work, AI/bot-augmented prediction markets, twitter’s community notes, and having a million people read HPMOR in spite of tearing down lots of civilizational schelling fences. I do not stack with the people doing more crypto-focused stuff. I think that tuning cognitive strategies and Raemon’s experiments have the lowest hanging fruit.
They were focused on making the world a better place, and a substantial subset (e.g. the hippies) were quite serious about it, but they were just lashing out with their eyes closed, due to lacking a drive to solve coordination problems or form accurate world models (the european enlightenment had the drive, but not the will to drive out nihilism). This was 60 years ago and popular revolutions weren’t yet well-established as senseless lunacy like they are today; they didn’t know that technical solutions were the way to go.
why not?