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I was considering writing some more discussion posts, but am not sure if people would find them valuable. Possible ideas:
1) In light of the relatively recent discussion of the value of history in social engineering, a summary of Politics of the Prussian Army 1640-1945 in order to have a proper case study for whether learning history is a reasonable effort improvement for those trying to raise the sanity line.
2) A post on hyperlexis - the idea that modern society has too much law.
3) Law: Real World Hidden Complexity of Wishes. This post would be useful for showing skeptics why hidden complexity of wishes is an intractable problem. Also, it might help to bring a different discipline's perspective on the problem.
4) A followup to Please Don't Fight the Hypothetical called "When to Fight the Hypothetical"
Thoughts? Suggestions?
I'd be interested in 1-3. But hope to see crunchy facts, not just a restatement of widely shared beliefs with weak evidence.
I would be most interested in nearly all of these but most of all law.
First.
(One of the few situations where this is a reasonable comment to make. :P )
I am quite interested in both law and history, and ran into some things that might be worthy of LessWrong posts, but I don't have the level necessary to write them. So yes, I would find 1, 2 and 3 valuable.
I'm interested in idea 2. If you write about it, I'm especially interested in what you think we should do about it.
I'd be interested in 4.
I am very interested in the first, third and fourth posts. The second pattern-matches to things I have read in libertarian/traditionalist blogs, but if you have interesting things to say that are novel and unideological, I would be interested too.
I would very much like the second and first posts.
Third point, preference elicitation. If someone with background in law read some neuroscience, or do a little research connecting the two camps and post, will be helpful.