Stories are a huge way we make sense of the world. Adding a narrative sequence to the post did helped me keep track of the ideas and how they fit together.
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Is histocracy compatible with a secret ballot? (And for that matter, is futarchy?)
And as a separate question, would it be a good idea to keep voters’ individual reliability scores secret, too? If a voter is known to have an accurate record and her opinion is public before a vote, couldn’t she get overweighted, because she’ll sway others’ votes as well as getting more weight in the vote sum?
It’s broken for me too, in exactly the way you describe. One of the variants on the error page invites me to buy a reddit t-shirt.
I participated in the IB diploma program in 1997, in Texas. My experience was better than KPier’s in several ways. I think having a skilled and experienced teacher makes all the difference. Mine wasn’t a LessWrong style rationalist, but she had experience with teaching philosophy, so we got past initial naive intuitions on most of the class topics relatively soon, and I witnessed basic changes in attitude toward the nature of language and knowledge in both me and several of my classmates.
In retrospect, I think the best thing that could have been added would have been a discussion up front about how not to be confused about words. Some combo of the material in Disputing Definitions and Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory. After that, something to undermine reliance on introspection and intuition more generally, perhaps in the context of presenting basic cognitive biases.
When I came last week (hadn’t checked here a while) and didn’t see anybody there, I though the regular meeting was defunct. I’m glad to see it’s still going. See y’all this evening!
I will attend most of the weekly Irvine meetups, at least through the end of July.
Zip code correction:
501 West 15th Street, Austin, TX 79701
Should be
501 West 15th Street, Austin, TX 78701
Isn’t this already implemented, as the Anti-Kibitzer in the preferences section?
Drop the little skyline/boat grayscale image (mini-landscape.gif) that appears at the bottom of each top-level post. Original mention. Seems to have no purpose, and doesn’t really fit the design theme.
Another by the same guy, more general in scope, and (in my opinion) more inspiring toward rationality: Why Didn’t Anybody Tell Me?
Thanks for the (potentially) very useful post. Upvoted with pleasure, as the best thing in while fitting the criterion: “I’d like to see more posts like this on LessWrong.”
Vivo ahora en California, pero mi esposa y yo nos mudamos a España en Augusto (todavía no hemos decidido cual ciudad). Viviremos allí por un año.
I’ll be coming. Thanks for putting this together again, Jennifer.
I suggest two topics:
The recent inspiring post by Cosmos on a successful rationalist community
some kind of structured conversation or exercise
I won’t attend this one (too far from Irvine), but thanks for setting up that mailing list. Now I don’t have to worry about missing a meetup via not checking the site for a while.
A very thought-provoking and well-written article. Thanks!
Your biggest conceptual jump seems to be reasoning about the subjective experience of hyperintelligences by analogy to human experiences. That is, and experience of some thought/communication speed ratio for a hyperintelligence would be “like” a human experience of that same ratio. But hyperintelligences aren’t just faster. I think they’d probably be very very different qualitatively. Who knows if the costs / benefits of time-consuming communication will be perceived in similar or even recognizable ways?
I won’t be coming to this one; it’s too far for me. I’ll see y’all when we gather again in Orange County.
Great! I’ll be there with p ≈ 0.9.
Possibly, but probably not. I have a young baby at home, so I can’t be away for very long. The issue for me isn’t transportation availability, but transportation time. I live about a mile from the IHOP.
If there’s no better basis for choosing than the most convenience for the most people, my vote is for the IHOP near UCI, which is super-convenient for me. If it’s there, I could come; if not, I’d very likely have to miss it.
What do you mean by “made the world a worse place”? Worse than it was before democracy and liberalism started spreading, i.e. pre-1700s? Or worse today than it would have been today if democracy and liberalism hadn’t spread? The first question seems easy (we’re more peaceful and prosperous than the past), the second a nearly impossible counterfactual, depending heavily on what government systems and philosophies we’d have instead.