SarahNibs

Wondering what happens if you have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting but with automated collusion - after all votes are in, pair two people and have them collude automatically, splitting implied utility equally, repeat over and over until everyone has the same distribution, do this whole process a million times, take the majority winners...

This is a summary of an excellent but long blog post, Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day (eugenewei.com). I wanted everyone to have access to the perspectives and ideas laid out in the post, but the barrier to entry is currently a 20,000 word essay. The...

Sometimes I want people to get $$$ for their contributions. When someone posts a long, exceptional sequence? I don't get that feeling. When folks working on the site itself roll out a sweet new feature? I don't get that feeling. But when https://www.lesswrong.com/users/lsusr creates a fun and relevant competition requiring...

I wrote a draft of a post and tagged 3 people to be able to see it. What does that look like to them? Do they get a notification? Should I explicitly message them if I want feedback? Will I get a notification if they leave feedback?

Previously: Generalizing From One Example > There was a debate, in the late 1800s, about whether "imagination" was simply a turn of phrase or a real phenomenon. That is, can people actually create images in their minds which they see vividly, or do they simply say "I saw it in...

Question regarding: If you don't know the name of the game, just tell me what I mean to you I've been thinking about what it means to prefer that someone else achieve their preferences. In particular, what happens if you and I both prefer to adopt and chase after each...

Often we cooperate to extract surplus value from the government, hotels, the physics that makes operating cars cost money, or other sources - value that we could not extract individually. When I notice such a surplus I often wonder how the surplus should be split. What is fair? Purely cooperatively,...