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Epistemic status: a hunch that having something like this matters a lot, and a basic outline for people to play with In my culture, we take updating when we notice an error in our thinking very seriously. We have a cultural toolkit for it. In those moments, we want the...

This post describes "Faerie rings", a copiable form of community that forms a building block for capturing the upsides: learning from each other, deeper relationships, and support to solve problems that are beyond one's abilities. I believe it counts as a nascent prototype for an Iterated Trust Kickstarter. I copied...

Try Things A couple weeks ago, I asked around facebook and discord for people willing to test out Polis, an interactive survey tool. Polis appealed to my aesthetic. It hosts a conversation where participants submit twitter-size comments on a topic which other participants vote on by clicking "agree", "disagree", or...

previously, in this series Noticing the taste of Lotus This has really lovely prose. Friend said he resented the premise that life is more than just a series of lotuses to eat. the writing made it sound so easy not to fall into them, and did not acknowledge let alone...

Intro This post compiles my personal comments on the Epistemology book from the Lesswrong 2018 bookset. I put almost no effort into making it legible or relevant to anyone else. A sketch of good communication * For research, we want to exchange deep models * For logistics team, okay to...

Zetetic explanations as described by benquo (blogpost, lw linkpost). * Interdisciplinary * covers a mixture of social and natural factors leading up to the isolation of the thing * historical in the original, investigative sense of the term "history." * risks being wrong * Empowering * integrates concrete and model-based...