B Jacobs

Karma: 476

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

B JacobsApr 28, 2025, 2:19 PM

6 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

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How Democratic Is Effective Altruism — Really?

B JacobsApr 25, 2025, 4:02 PM

2 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

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Problems with Bayesianism: A Socratic Dialogue

B JacobsApr 22, 2025, 2:09 PM

3 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

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How worker co-ops can help restore social trust

B JacobsApr 17, 2025, 2:14 PM

0 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

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

B JacobsApr 2, 2025, 3:37 PM

31 points

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

2 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

6 comments4 min readLW link

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When to join a respectability cascade

B JacobsSep 24, 2024, 7:54 AM

10 points

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

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

4 comments8 min readLW link

Resolving moral uncertainty with randomization

B Jacobs and Jobst Heitzig

Sep 29, 2023, 11:23 AM

7 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Sortition Model of Moral Uncertainty

B JacobsOct 8, 2020, 5:44 PM

9 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A Toy Model of Hingeyness

B JacobsSep 7, 2020, 5:38 PM

16 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey Results

B JacobsJul 13, 2020, 1:53 PM

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Hierarchy of Evidence

B JacobsJul 11, 2020, 12:54 PM

7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

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

B JacobsJun 15, 2020, 6:34 PM

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey

B JacobsJun 11, 2020, 8:05 PM

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Bob Jacobs’s Shortform

B JacobsJun 1, 2020, 7:40 PM

3 points

42 comments LW link

[Question] Should we stop using the term ‘Rationalist’?

B JacobsMay 29, 2020, 3:11 PM

12 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Updated Hierarchy of Disagreement

B JacobsMay 28, 2020, 3:57 PM

14 points

13 comments2 min readLW link