gwern comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 18 November 2012 01:22:41AM 6 points [-]

Which suggests to me a heuristic to tell which of two memeplexes is closer to the CEV of humanity: is the fraction of adult A-ists who convert to B-ism per year larger or smaller than the fraction of adult B-ists who convert to A-ism?

If you're curious, you could try doing this heuristic on the Pew American religion survey which includes rich conversion data: http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report-religious-landscape-study-full.pdf (The results may surprise you!)

Comment author: [deleted] 18 November 2012 11:18:38AM 0 points [-]

Thank you, I'll take a look at that.