This touches on the slightly depressing Hanson hypothesis - we achieved big gains in accuracy because the territory was wide open, because it hadn't been previously researched well, because people don't care that much about accuracyhttps://twitter.com/geekethics/status/1304004725034098693 …
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It's definitely true of individual superforecasters that they care a lot about what's true, which I think explains the overlap with other subcultures like utilitarians who place the same high value on figuring things out and can suffer similar social costs
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Feel like it’s one of the strongest points that is included in LessWrong too - actually trying to be accurate, actually updating your beliefs based on the real world.
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