If you failed you’d want to distinguish between (a) rationalism sucking, (b) your rationalism sucking, or (c) EVE already being full of rationalists.
Whether or not success in Eve is relevant outside Eve is debatable, but I think the complexity, politics and intense competition means that it would be hard to find a better online proving ground.
I feel a LessWrong corporation in Eve would be a very interesting experiment.
This is one of those cases where “interesting” is usefully ambiguous between good and bad, isn’t it?
:-)
I expect you’d get, um, meaningful results. You are not guaranteed to like them.
If you failed you’d want to distinguish between (a) rationalism sucking, (b) your rationalism sucking, or (c) EVE already being full of rationalists.
Whether or not success in Eve is relevant outside Eve is debatable, but I think the complexity, politics and intense competition means that it would be hard to find a better online proving ground.