RichardKennaway comments on Rationalist Role in the Information Age - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 May 2009 01:19:00PM 2 points [-]

Initially, this has to be an exercise among ourselves to see if we can do it at all, before we can think of doing the public a service by it. We aspire to rationality: let this be a test of that aspiration.

Comment author: byrnema 01 May 2009 04:00:48PM *  1 point [-]

What do you think of implementing a test-run of our techniques by solving a problem: We choose to estimate something that is currently unknown, but which we expect will be resolved later. Later, we compare our estimate with the actual result -- "Did we win or lose?", and we can analyze why.

I had suggested some questions about rational response to H1N1 here, but the information seems to have already caught up with my need for it. Are there any other questions of interest that we could work on?

If you want to start solving a problem, in a new thread, maybe wait and see if discussing such a real-world problem (here in this post) is group-approved first.

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