Where Are We the Weakest?

DiscyD3rp

As rationalists, we should be able to consistently and accurately make predictions that enable us to act effectively.

As humans, we don't. At least not perfectly.

We need to improve. Many of us have, or at least believe we have. However, it's a notably hacked improvement. PredictionBook is an excellent source of feedback on how well we're doing, but there's more detailed information that isn't easily available that I think could be incredibly useful. Questions I would like to see answered are:

What kinds of predictions are we the least successful at predicting? (weakest calibration, smallest accuracy)
What kinds of predictions have the most low-hanging fruit? What's the easiest to improve on right now?
What kinds of predictions are the most useful to us? (accurately predicting a close friend's behavior>predicting obscure political decision)
Where aren't we making quantitative predictions? Where does our behavior involve predictions that are underrepresented on PredictionBook?

Before we are able to improve as a community, we need to know where to improve. I'd love to hear suggestions on how to answer these questions in the comments.

As rationalists, we should be able to consistently and accurately make predictions that enable us to act effectively.

As humans, we don't. At least not perfectly.

What kinds of predictions are we the least successful at predicting? (weakest calibration, smallest accuracy)
What kinds of predictions have the most low-hanging fruit? What's the easiest to improve on right now?
What kinds of predictions are the most useful to us? (accurately predicting a close friend's behavior>predicting obscure political decision)
Where aren't we making quantitative predictions? Where does our behavior involve predictions that are underrepresented on PredictionBook?

Before we are able to improve as a community, we need to know where to improve. I'd love to hear suggestions on how to answer these questions in the comments.

I know cookies make me unhappy in the long run, but I enjoy eating cookies in the short run. I could name a bunch of parts of the cookie-eating experience that I like, such as the feeling of sleepiness and contentment caused by eating a lot.

You could argue that any feeling is "brainwashing", meaning that my feelings are controlled by my physical brain, which is something separate from me. I am deeply uncomfortable with all of the current solutions to the hard problem of consciousness. If I am self-aware, then it seems like all matter must be aware in the same sense that I am not a philosophical zombie.

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