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[metic(?) status: Totally useless in the near-term. Maybe interesting to develop in the background in case US elections get updated sometime.] I think most of the readers here are quite familiar with ranked-choice voting as a proposed alternative to the default first-past-the-post voting. Roughly, instead of letting a plurality make...

Suppose for some big problem that research labor is plentiful and time is short. Obviously the first thing to do is to divide the research into subproblems and research them in parallel. But what if the number of research teams still exceeds the number of real subproblems identified? One possibility:...

Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation Tldr: If you're young and haven't studied negotiation, it's probably worth spending ~10hr engaging with this course when you get a chance. The MOOC is based on the first course in Yale's MBA program apparently. He claims it isn't watered down, but probably a smart 10yo could follow...

Why are we not fostering more teams of say 2-5 people that a) work full-time on the same or closely related problems b) live together or very close c) spend most of their work time collaborating in-person ? I'm aware of student groups etc. but these fail both a) and...

The Mozilla Foundation recently conducted a survey about AI perception. I participated after receiving an email invitation; I don't know if they recruited elsewhere. They just released a writeup of the results today, which can be found here. Mozilla seems to take a broad view of "AI", with a lot...