Group Rationality

TagLast edit: 27 Dec 2020 16:23 UTC by Yoav Ravid

In almost anything, individuals are inferior to groups. Several articles address this concern regarding rationality, i.e., the topic of Group Rationality.

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Open Problems in Group Rationality is one of the main articles about the subject.
Individual and Group Behavior in the Ultimatum Game
Individual vs. Group Rationality in Inquiry

Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

Zack_M_Davis24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC

325 points

40 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth9 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC

319 points

30 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Bayesians vs. Barbarians

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2009 23:45 UTC

107 points

277 comments8 min readLW link

Rational Me or We?

RobinHanson17 Mar 2009 13:39 UTC

164 points

156 comments1 min readLW link

My tentative best guess on how EAs and Rationalists sometimes turn crazy

habryka21 Jun 2023 4:11 UTC

204 points

112 comments8 min readLW link

A Fundamental Question of Group Rationality

steven046113 Oct 2010 20:32 UTC

17 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

The Hamming Problem of Group Rationality

PDV26 Feb 2018 18:59 UTC

6 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

It turns out that group meetings are mostly a terrible way to make decisions

Ian David Moss17 Dec 2020 3:30 UTC

61 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Democracy Is in Danger, but Not for the Reasons You Think

ExCeph6 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC

−7 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

Loudly Give Up, Don’t Quietly Fade

Screwtape13 Nov 2023 23:30 UTC

182 points

12 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Death in Groups II

ryan_b13 Apr 2018 18:12 UTC

14 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

The Heckler’s Veto Is Also Subject to the Unilateralist’s Curse

Zack_M_Davis9 Mar 2020 8:11 UTC

48 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Shallow Review of Consistency in Statement Evaluation

Elizabeth9 Sep 2019 23:21 UTC

65 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

What is the next level of rationality?

lsusr and Yoav Ravid

12 Dec 2023 8:14 UTC

53 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

The Right to be Wrong

sarahconstantin28 Nov 2017 23:43 UTC

48 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

The Role of Groups in the Progression of Human Understanding

Chris_Leong27 Sep 2023 15:09 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

People Will Listen

sapphire11 Apr 2021 16:51 UTC

86 points

36 comments4 min readLW link

Principles for Productive Group Meetings

jsteinhardt22 Mar 2023 0:50 UTC

60 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

The Treacherous Path to Rationality

Jacob Falkovich9 Oct 2020 15:34 UTC

209 points

116 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Second-Order Rationality, System Rationality, and a feature suggestion for LessWrong

Mati_Roy5 Jun 2024 7:20 UTC

13 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Tensions in Truthseeking

Raemon2 Oct 2017 0:54 UTC

38 points

42 comments7 min readLW link

Your Price for Joining

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Mar 2009 7:16 UTC

97 points

58 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] When does adding more people reliably make a system better?

Bird Concept19 Jul 2019 4:21 UTC

30 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Principles and Generators of a Rationality Dojo

DaystarEld26 Nov 2025 5:32 UTC

48 points

1 comment23 min readLW link

Notes on Loyalty

David Gross15 Nov 2020 19:30 UTC

17 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Public beliefs vs. Private beliefs

Eli Tyre1 Jun 2022 21:33 UTC

146 points

30 comments5 min readLW link

Epistemic Tenure

Scott Garrabrant18 Feb 2019 22:56 UTC

90 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Rationality, Pedagogy, and “Vibes”: Quick Thoughts

Nicholas Kross15 Jul 2023 2:09 UTC

14 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

«Boundaries», Part 1: a key missing concept from utility theory

Andrew_Critch26 Jul 2022 23:03 UTC

158 points

33 comments7 min readLW link

Nonmagical Powers

sixes_and_sevens26 Apr 2011 10:53 UTC

51 points

63 comments1 min readLW link

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC

304 points

211 comments9 min readLW link

Trust the (local) expert

rk9 Apr 2018 10:22 UTC

14 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

Negative and Positive Selection

alyssavance6 Jul 2012 1:34 UTC

148 points

263 comments3 min readLW link

Melting Gold, and Organizational Capacity

Raemon11 Dec 2017 19:16 UTC

75 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

Reducing collective rationality to individual optimization in common-payoff games using MCMC

jessicata20 Aug 2018 0:51 UTC

59 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

Group Rationality Diary, November 1-15

therufs3 Nov 2014 3:58 UTC

7 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from World of Warcraft: Incentives and rewards

Said Achmiz7 May 2018 6:44 UTC

25 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(blog.obormot.net)

The Archipelago Model of Community Standards

Raemon21 Nov 2017 3:21 UTC

52 points

26 comments6 min readLW link

Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2011 21:13 UTC

150 points

275 comments10 min readLW link

Non-Book Review: Patterns of Conflict

johnswentworth30 Nov 2020 21:05 UTC

38 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Rational Groups Kick Ass

talisman25 Apr 2009 2:37 UTC

33 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Adversarial System Hats

Johnicholas11 Mar 2009 16:56 UTC

8 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Becoming stronger together

b4yes_duplicate0.992409072968312811 Jul 2017 13:00 UTC

30 points

39 comments9 min readLW link

[Review] On the Chatham House Rule (Ben Pace, Dec 2019)

Ben Pace10 Dec 2019 0:24 UTC

40 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Selecting Rationalist Groups

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Apr 2009 16:21 UTC

42 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter

Cosmos17 Mar 2011 20:12 UTC

190 points

172 comments11 min readLW link

A multi-disciplinary view on AI safety research

Roman Leventov8 Feb 2023 16:50 UTC

47 points

4 comments26 min readLW link

Group Rationality Diary, February 1-14

therufs1 Feb 2015 3:04 UTC

9 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

3 Cultural Infrastructure Ideas from MAPLE

Unreal26 Nov 2019 18:56 UTC

53 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

880 points

254 comments10 min readLW link

Partitioned Book Club

jenn12 May 2024 18:38 UTC

22 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

How I see knowledge aggregation

zulupineapple3 Feb 2018 10:31 UTC

24 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

The Spiral of Coherence

[Error communicating with LW2 server]22 Nov 2025 21:22 UTC

1 point

0 comments47 min readLW link

Rational Unilateralists Aren’t So Cursed

SCP4 Jul 2023 12:19 UTC

57 points

6 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Against “Classic Style”

Cleo Nardo23 Nov 2022 22:10 UTC

69 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

Applications Open for a Weekend Exploring Civilisational Sanity [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

Yulia, Ashe Vazquez and Jonte Hünerbein

10 Oct 2025 16:26 UTC

26 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Proving the Geometric Utilitarian Theorem

StrivingForLegibility7 Aug 2024 1:39 UTC

25 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Art of Critical Decision Making

PhilGoetz17 Apr 2009 1:54 UTC

−2 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Group Rationality Diary, February 15-28

therufs16 Feb 2015 4:40 UTC

8 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Second Best

Wei Dai26 Jul 2009 22:58 UTC

21 points

59 comments2 min readLW link

Roles are Martial Arts for Agency

Eneasz8 Aug 2014 3:53 UTC

242 points

59 comments3 min readLW link

ZuVillage Georgia – Mission Statement

Burns17 Jun 2024 19:53 UTC

3 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness

Alicorn5 Jan 2010 21:32 UTC

115 points

198 comments3 min readLW link

Go Forth and Create the Art!

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Apr 2009 1:37 UTC

90 points

114 comments5 min readLW link

Gradient Ascenders Reach the Harsanyi Hyperplane

StrivingForLegibility7 Aug 2024 1:40 UTC

4 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Mandatory Secret Identities

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2009 18:10 UTC

71 points

186 comments3 min readLW link

Church vs. Taskforce

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2009 9:23 UTC

88 points

88 comments5 min readLW link

The Black Team—A Parable of Group Effectiveness

JGWeissman22 Apr 2011 2:37 UTC

59 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Whose reasoning can you rely on when your own is faulty?

weft18 Feb 2018 22:41 UTC

29 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

When programs have to work—lessons from NASA

NancyLebovitz31 Jul 2011 15:22 UTC

37 points

50 comments3 min readLW link

Helpless Individuals

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Mar 2009 11:10 UTC

93 points

245 comments3 min readLW link

The Geometric Importance of Side Payments

StrivingForLegibility7 Aug 2024 1:38 UTC

8 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

The Carnot Engine of Economics

StrivingForLegibility9 Aug 2024 15:59 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Group rationality diary, 5/14/12

cata15 May 2012 3:01 UTC

31 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Explorative Questions towards Argumentation + GitHub

cod3d13 Jul 2021 6:01 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

Group Rationality Diary, August 1-15

therufs1 Aug 2014 20:44 UTC

7 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Crowdsourcing the availability heuristic

kalla72425 Apr 2012 6:20 UTC

43 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

Marketing rationalism

PhilGoetz12 Apr 2009 21:41 UTC

16 points

65 comments1 min readLW link

Group rationality diary, May 5th − 23rd

philh4 May 2015 23:59 UTC

12 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

The Importance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_Kingsley31 Jul 2019 23:33 UTC

42 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Replace yourself before you stop organizing your community.

Raemon22 Jul 2018 20:57 UTC

66 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

Book Review: The Righteous Mind

Tornus20 Jan 2022 21:42 UTC

7 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Lessons Learned: Properly Publicizing a Regional Meetup Event (also, last call to apply!)

Willa25 Jun 2023 0:58 UTC

9 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Geometric Utilitarianism (And Why It Matters)

StrivingForLegibility12 May 2024 3:41 UTC

34 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality

Wei Dai2 Mar 2010 21:46 UTC

36 points

54 comments2 min readLW link

Deriving the Geometric Utilitarian Weights

StrivingForLegibility7 Aug 2024 1:39 UTC

2 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Against Compromise, or, Deciding as a Team without Succombing to Entropy

Alexandros8 Jan 2017 13:22 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(alexandros.resin.io)

We Agree: Speeches All Around!

SebastianG 14 Jun 2018 17:53 UTC

37 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Whining-Based Communities

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2009 20:31 UTC

88 points

99 comments4 min readLW link

Expected Utility, Geometric Utility, and Other Equivalent Representations

StrivingForLegibility20 Nov 2024 23:28 UTC

10 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Look Under the Light Post

Gordon Seidoh Worley16 Jul 2018 22:19 UTC

22 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Individual Utilities Shift Continuously as Geometric Weights Shift

StrivingForLegibility7 Aug 2024 1:41 UTC

2 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

Hufflepuff Leadership and Fighting Entropy

Raemon7 Jun 2018 0:28 UTC

51 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

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Group Rationality

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