| If rationality is systemized winning, then the diaspora of rationalists should be the most powerful group in the world.
So are they? Can they even steer a software project to a succesful conclusion?
As a starting point, the obvious way to increase cooperation is to increase the frequency of high bandwidth communication among the agents.
Co-operation requires trust and common aims. as well.
The purpose of this is to develop a real community of people with the shared mission of optimizing the world.
Optimise what about the world? There is no such thing as optimisation in general. We have politics because people disagree about what to optimise.
Things like “solve eveything and make everything wonderful” are too vague to be achievable. See Arbital, again.
An example might be everyone deciding that the current education system is completely broken (student debt in the US is over 1 trillion dollars) ― and having an organization, let’s call it the Bayesian church fix it by supplying the coordination mechanism needed to change the system.
How? By political persuasion? By routing around it?
You don’t need to engage in political persuasion to found a school that works according to your desired criteria.
I consider the system I laid out in Prediction-based Medicine a way to replace a good chunk of traditional credentialing in the medical system with the ability to actually measure the impact of actions of practioners. Prediction-based Medicine would need a startup that’s focused on making it happen and not large scale political action.
| If rationality is systemized winning, then the diaspora of rationalists should be the most powerful group in the world.
So are they? Can they even steer a software project to a succesful conclusion?
Co-operation requires trust and common aims. as well.
Optimise what about the world? There is no such thing as optimisation in general. We have politics because people disagree about what to optimise.
Things like “solve eveything and make everything wonderful” are too vague to be achievable. See Arbital, again.
How? By political persuasion? By routing around it?
You don’t need to engage in political persuasion to found a school that works according to your desired criteria.
I consider the system I laid out in Prediction-based Medicine a way to replace a good chunk of traditional credentialing in the medical system with the ability to actually measure the impact of actions of practioners. Prediction-based Medicine would need a startup that’s focused on making it happen and not large scale political action.