B Jacobs

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If worker coops are so productive, why aren’t they everywhere?

B JacobsAug 9, 2025, 2:47 PM

35 points

27 votes

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19 comments4 min readLW link

(bobjacobs.substack.com)

Reasons to vote in non-deterministic elections

B JacobsJul 21, 2025, 11:09 AM

8 points

4 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

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How worker co-ops can help restore social trust

B JacobsJul 3, 2025, 7:13 PM

12 points

5 votes

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7 comments6 min readLW link

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Why giving workers stocks isn’t enough — and what co-ops get right

B JacobsApr 28, 2025, 2:19 PM

7 points

7 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

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How Democratic Is Effective Altruism — Really?

B JacobsApr 25, 2025, 4:02 PM

0 points

5 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

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Problems with Bayesianism: A Socratic Dialogue

B JacobsApr 22, 2025, 2:09 PM

3 points

6 votes

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1 comment14 min readLW link

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How prediction markets can create harmful outcomes: a case study

B JacobsApr 2, 2025, 3:37 PM

29 points

13 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

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Which meat to eat: CO₂ vs Animal suffering

B JacobsMar 6, 2025, 12:37 PM

2 points

5 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

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Should we abstain from voting? (In nondeterministic elections)

B JacobsOct 2, 2024, 10:07 AM

5 points

10 votes

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8 comments4 min readLW link

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When to join a respectability cascade

B JacobsSep 24, 2024, 7:54 AM

10 points

5 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

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A (paraconsistent) logic to deal with inconsistent preferences

B JacobsJul 14, 2024, 11:17 AM

6 points

3 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

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[Aspiration-based designs] 1. Informal introduction

B Jacobs, Jobst Heitzig, Simon Fischer and Simon Dima

Apr 28, 2024, 1:00 PM

44 points

20 votes

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4 comments8 min readLW link

Resolving moral uncertainty with randomization

B Jacobs and Jobst Heitzig

Sep 29, 2023, 11:23 AM

7 points

5 votes

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1 comment11 min readLW link

Sortition Model of Moral Uncertainty

B JacobsOct 8, 2020, 5:44 PM

9 points

4 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

A Toy Model of Hingeyness

B JacobsSep 7, 2020, 5:38 PM

16 points

5 votes

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10 comments4 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey Results

B JacobsJul 13, 2020, 1:53 PM

18 points

9 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Hierarchy of Evidence

B JacobsJul 11, 2020, 12:54 PM

7 points

4 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] By what metric do you judge a reference class?

B JacobsJun 15, 2020, 6:34 PM

7 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey

B JacobsJun 11, 2020, 8:05 PM

20 points

8 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Bob Jacobs’s Shortform

B JacobsJun 1, 2020, 7:40 PM

3 points

1 vote

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42 comments1 min readLW link

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