Dr_Manhattan comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 27 March 2012 04:04:05PM *  11 points [-]

Not attempting to answer the question, but I've been nursing a thought about the rationality org that might be useful: The nearby Stanford University has a world-renown program in "decision sciences" http://decision.stanford.edu/ which is basically "how to make decisions scientifically"; they virtually invented influence diagrams, they teach biases as a part of the program, etc. The head of the program, Ronald Howard, also co-founded http://www.decisioneducation.org/ , his teen-oriented "rationality org".

  • there is probably things to learn from both

  • if "rationality org" has a value proposition to these organizations they can be useful in teaching opportunities and for credibility building

Comment author: Incorrect 30 March 2012 03:39:58AM 1 point [-]

A comma broke one of the links in your post.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 March 2012 01:06:17AM 2 points [-]
Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 11:16:15PM 3 points [-]

These do indeed sound like people to talk to, and local too - thanks!

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 31 March 2012 02:31:17PM 0 points [-]

The other guy to talk to (unless you decide to strategically approach younger faculty) is Ross Shachter, inventor of bayes-ball algorithm and some other interesting AI papers.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 30 March 2012 12:34:38AM 0 points [-]

Please tell me how that goes. Also, you planning to look into this, or Anna et al?