"Become Good" no. Create tight feedback loops incentivising the good. It's not about virtue, it's about perverse incentives.
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Replying to @ProofOfLogic
@ProofOfLogic Does "it" refer to something specific here, or is it like "it's raining"?1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @preinfarction
@preinfarction "it" refers to the direction I'm thinking formal rationality should go in.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @ProofOfLogic
@preinfarction Improving beliefs is mainly about exposing them to tests. Improving group behaviour is mainly about setting up incentives.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @ProofOfLogic
@preinfarction Using formal rationality to debias, noticing what you care about, optimizing for that (maybe effective altruism), all good.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ProofOfLogic
@preinfarction To overcome the forces dragging people away from that in the first place though, we could use better incentive systems.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@preinfarction The most frustrating "irrational" behaviours are responses to perverse incentives due to lost purposes within organizations.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@preinfarction Economics has been the name under which we study formal rationality; also has excellent tools for this.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@preinfarction More focus in rationalist circles on mechanism design, organizing groups to produce good behaviour, would be cool.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@ProofOfLogic@preinfarction By saying "become good", am I not providing exactly such an incentive?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@MemberOfSpecies @preinfarction I wasn't really complaining about you, but just asking people to become good is woefully inadequate.
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