DanArmak comments on Crossing the History-Lessons Threshold - Less Wrong

34 Post author: lionhearted 17 October 2014 12:17AM

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Comment author: DanArmak 17 October 2014 01:53:39PM 5 points [-]

a fourth tier, maybe with predictive value, where someone (a human being, not a Bayesian superintelligence) can draw on these observations to identify these leverage points and make informed decisions during them?

I.e. psychohistory.

Comment author: AnthonyC 18 October 2014 12:58:53PM 1 point [-]

Good point. Hadn't noticed that connection. I don't think I had anything quite that sophisticated in mind, but that's the underlying idea.