Paul Christiano and Katja’s ‘Structured Case Project’
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Generally intended as experimental epistemic object:
collection of editable pages
Each page is a modular node attempting to answer a question
Each page has summary answer at the top, then the page supports that answer
Lower level pages answer questions that are helpful for answering questions on higher level pages
Turning into a wiki: wiki.aiimpacts.org/
Someone made software that did the thing Katja is always asking for, and it somehow didn’t seem great, so that’s evidence against Katja’s intuitions on this
Probably this?
Attempt to analyze what is actually hard about making structured arguments
Katja has done this some, still feels mysterious
Improving people’s epistemics
Pastcasting - forecasting past results so you get instant feedback
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Calibration - see how justified your own confidence is
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Open Phil one
Critch (I think?) made an app
Historical Base rates - much thinking requires knowing roughly how often things have happened in the past
Seems like Our World In Data might do some work here
There is at least one other effort
Increasing summarisation - making it easier to get a basic understanding on EA/LessWrong topics
Nonlinear offer a range of prizes for summaries of such works
Nathan Young
Fighting ‘Moloch’
What is Moloch exactly?