Crony beliefs, Merit Beliefs were totally new for me. Thank you for sharing this. The analogy of our beliefs as employees hired by our brain, throughout the essay was helpful to grasp somehow the very notion. But still, my mind has room for its conflicts though.
It's true that our community is not a textbook and heavily outrun by crony beliefs, where the beauty of less wrong prevails. We don't know when these crony beliefs of us were able to outgrow our epistemic merit roots. Maybe because of human nature for getting easy fruits. Don't know. And roots are the problem here.
And taking measures such as arranging some peers or building mini-ecosystem or institutions who solely judge as per the/their merit beliefs, to hit those roots sounds functional. Possible to grow on a macro scale but a difficult thing to achieve. Unless everybody gets similar education of holding pragmatic beliefs. Which is going to take a whole lot of time even if we are in a linear path holding our beliefs. Not impossible.
The further reading recommendation in the same essay: Robin Hanson, Are Beliefs Like Clothes? Dealing with the same dual function of beliefs was also good.
And why it is easier to be thin in japan video was amusing.
One broken thought I had when thinking about "incentives" in general:
In a company, X recommendation is given higher priority in hiring people, which helps to provide a bonus to whoever is recommending. Does that mean the company eventually gets tangled with nepotism?
Anyway, thanks for this thought-provoking iteration.
Also for Cohen's song and the poem (found it moving...)
Crony beliefs, Merit Beliefs were totally new for me. Thank you for sharing this. The analogy of our beliefs as employees hired by our brain, throughout the essay was helpful to grasp somehow the very notion. But still, my mind has room for its conflicts though.
It's true that our community is not a textbook and heavily outrun by crony beliefs, where the beauty of less wrong prevails. We don't know when these crony beliefs of us were able to outgrow our epistemic merit roots. Maybe because of human nature for getting easy fruits. Don't know. And roots are the problem here.
And taking measures such as arranging some peers or building mini-ecosystem or institutions who solely judge as per the/their merit beliefs, to hit those roots sounds functional. Possible to grow on a macro scale but a difficult thing to achieve. Unless everybody gets similar education of holding pragmatic beliefs. Which is going to take a whole lot of time even if we are in a linear path holding our beliefs. Not impossible.
The further reading recommendation in the same essay: Robin Hanson, Are Beliefs Like Clothes? Dealing with the same dual function of beliefs was also good.
And why it is easier to be thin in japan video was amusing.
One broken thought I had when thinking about "incentives" in general:
In a company, X recommendation is given higher priority in hiring people, which helps to provide a bonus to whoever is recommending. Does that mean the company eventually gets tangled with nepotism?
Anyway, thanks for this thought-provoking iteration.
Also for Cohen's song and the poem (found it moving...)
Also, didn't know we could simply move tabs in Gmail to change priority... :O
Thank you for that candyland comic. Subtle yet powerful I guess... Or maybe absurd in itself. nevermind...