SilasBarta comments on Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28 - Less Wrong

24 Post author: AnnaSalamon 29 March 2012 08:48PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 09:12:50PM 3 points [-]

Apparently the one-year followup is currently underway - a Minicamp attendee volunteered to do it.

This is pretty strong evidence of itself - people almost never volunteer for things and do them.

EDIT: OOPS! Anna said that an RBC attendee volunteered to do the RBC followup. RBC as you know was less successful than Minicamp, and we do not have someone doing the Minicamp followup yet.

I will remark that it's more time-intensive than you seem to think - this is something that gets done after successfully hiring an executive assistant; we have a candidate but the hiring hasn't yet occurred.

Comment author: SilasBarta 29 March 2012 09:15:19PM 11 points [-]

This is pretty strong evidence of itself - people almost never volunteer for things and do them.

It would be strong evidence if the volunteer had completed the "do them" part, certainly.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 09:16:11PM 7 points [-]

Fair enough. One cannot update on evidence one has not yet received.