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4 saliency 13 March 2013 04:56PM

Less Wrong Parents

11 saliency 03 November 2012 04:59AM

Less Wrong Parents
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!forum/less-wrong-parents

Recently the NYC LW/OB community had two babies and is expecting a third.
I created a google group as a way of sharing information, primarily thinking of the NYC community.

I posted my pre-baby purchase list and William Eden posted an extensive list of books on early parenting.

William suggested opening up the group so as to get insight from the larger LW community on parenting.
I think this is *probably* a good idea.  Google groups are simple to set up but have limits.
For this reason I request that if you are going to have an extensive debate on a subject you create a new thread (aka: get a room)

The primary objective is to lower the cost of obtaining information on parenting.
I believe this overall goal to be more important then any particular "truth".

My hope is that this will primarily serve as a place for people to ask parenting question and post guides.
Perhaps if enough guides are posted they can eventually be consolidated into a wiki.

Opaque fragile systems/institutions dominate.

-7 saliency 11 June 2012 03:06PM

 

Opaque fragile systems/institutions dominate.

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.”

All systems compete against each other for users.  I believe opaque fragile systems dominate transparent robust systems.  First I believe individuals choose shrouded systems more tightly bounding their rationality.  Second I believe even when individuals know a system is fragile they believe they will not be victim to its fragility; the greater fools will be.

First sophisticated consumers like price discrimination while myopic consumers are ignorant they are being discriminated against or unwilling to commit the time needed to exploit the system.  Information asymmetry is a feature of the system not a bug.

See “Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets” http://aida.wss.yale.edu/~shiller/behmacro/2003-11/gabaix-laibson.pdf for more detail.

Second sophisticated individuals, even when they perceive the system to be fragile, often subscribe to the the greater fool theory.  They feel they will win out over the greater fools, but they do not understand how tightly bound their rationality has become due to the layers upon layers of shrouding.  The myopics of course are largely ignorant of the risks.

This is a very pessimistic view that offers no solution to the problem of system fragility.  I think though most solutions to fragility only create larger equally fragile systems.

 

Coercion is far

-6 saliency 16 May 2011 12:37AM

I was in the subway about a month ago when saw an advert for a new show The Bourgeoisie.  While waiting for my train I thought about the families patriarch and the control he probably exerted over family members.  I imagined the cliché of the daughter forced into a marriage for political advantage.  I thought about the sacrifice for the greater good of the family that she would be coerced into making and thought how it is easier to force others to sacrifice then to sacrifice yourself.  I thought that coercion may be one of the mechanisms that have enabled humans to engage and execute long term plans.  If the immediate short-term costs are what most often repress long-term action then those not saddled with the short-term costs of their long-term actions will be prone to engage in more long-term action.  Coercion is far.

Moderation Wiki Article

5 saliency 09 May 2011 07:42PM

I have transformed 

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Site_features

into

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Moderation

 

I think "site features" is to general of a topic for the content contained in the article.

In the new wiki article I focus on the topic of all the ways content can be moderated and give the information I have gathered about the process.  I took the liberty to simply state that Eliezer_Yudkowsky is the one who promotes articles to the PROMOTED section.  Besides that most is taken from other areas of the site.

 

I'm sure there are factual and formating errors please correct/contribute as needed.

 

Karma needed to post?

1 saliency 09 May 2011 05:44PM

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Karma#What_is_karma.3F

 

My understanding is that it was risen from 20.  Is this correct?  What is the current number?

Who are the LW editors?

3 saliency 06 May 2011 09:34PM

 

Do we have a published list of the users who are editors?

 

Add "Meetups" to top navigation bar?

2 saliency 06 May 2011 08:03PM

I think the impulse to promote all meetups was a good idea but now adding to much noise to the "PROMOTED" feed. Of the 10 "PROMOTED" feeds 8 are adverts for meetups.

I propose adding Meetups to the navigation bar and only adding them to "PROMOTED" when they are especially significant; for example have a special speaker and might draw attention from people who are out of town.

New Diplomacy Game in need of two more.

2 saliency 30 November 2010 08:34PM

We have five people from the NYC division of LW.  We need two more players

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=42765

 

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