B Jacobs

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

B Jacobs9 Aug 2025 14:47 UTC

35 points

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Reasons to vote in non-deterministic elections

B Jacobs21 Jul 2025 11:09 UTC

8 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

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How worker co-ops can help restore social trust

B Jacobs3 Jul 2025 19:13 UTC

12 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

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

B Jacobs28 Apr 2025 14:19 UTC

7 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

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How Democratic Is Effective Altruism — Really?

B Jacobs25 Apr 2025 16:02 UTC

0 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

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Problems with Bayesianism: A Socratic Dialogue

B Jacobs22 Apr 2025 14:09 UTC

3 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

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

B Jacobs2 Apr 2025 15:37 UTC

29 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

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Which meat to eat: CO₂ vs Animal suffering

B Jacobs6 Mar 2025 12:37 UTC

2 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

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

B Jacobs2 Oct 2024 10:07 UTC

5 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

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When to join a respectability cascade

B Jacobs24 Sep 2024 7:54 UTC

10 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

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A (paraconsistent) logic to deal with inconsistent preferences

B Jacobs14 Jul 2024 11:17 UTC

6 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

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[Aspiration-based designs] 1. Informal introduction

B Jacobs, Jobst Heitzig, Simon Fischer and Simon Dima

28 Apr 2024 13:00 UTC

44 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Resolving moral uncertainty with randomization

B Jacobs and Jobst Heitzig

29 Sep 2023 11:23 UTC

7 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Sortition Model of Moral Uncertainty

B Jacobs8 Oct 2020 17:44 UTC

9 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A Toy Model of Hingeyness

B Jacobs7 Sep 2020 17:38 UTC

16 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey Results

B Jacobs13 Jul 2020 13:53 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Hierarchy of Evidence

B Jacobs11 Jul 2020 12:54 UTC

7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

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

B Jacobs15 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey

B Jacobs11 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Bob Jacobs’s Shortform

B Jacobs1 Jun 2020 19:40 UTC

3 points

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