It’s been asked recently if people would like to see more posts (or entire sequences) on various subjects. My comment listing suggestions had 7 upvotes—moderate but not very widespread interest. I promised in that comment to set up a poll, so here it is.
I started out by requiring subjects to have some sort of bearing on rationality, but I’ve realized that this is less restrictive than it sounds. Most of the subjects listed here form important parts of many people’s thought processes. Many subjects already have excellent material elsewhere on the Web, though, so posts would need to take advantage of LW common knowledge or special interests to add new value.
Of course, even if people want to read about something, someone would have to actually write these posts. Exposing interest in a specific subject could be a first step towards that. I hope I’m not wasting everyone’s time.
Would you like to read more about:
Prediction markets [pollid:188]
Other economics [pollid:189]
Statistics [pollid:190]
Probability, measure theory etc. [pollid:191]
Information theory [pollid:192]
Other foundational maths (e.g. set theory) [pollid:193]
Other computer science (e.g. computation theory) [pollid:194]
Programming (not how to code, but lessons learned from programming which apply to building systems and dealing with information and being rational and a great person) [pollid:195]
Not included from the original list: mathematical logic and number theory (Eliezer is posting a sequence about this, so let’s see what he covers first).
It’s been asked recently if people would like to see more posts (or entire sequences) on various subjects. My comment listing suggestions had 7 upvotes—moderate but not very widespread interest. I promised in that comment to set up a poll, so here it is.
I started out by requiring subjects to have some sort of bearing on rationality, but I’ve realized that this is less restrictive than it sounds. Most of the subjects listed here form important parts of many people’s thought processes. Many subjects already have excellent material elsewhere on the Web, though, so posts would need to take advantage of LW common knowledge or special interests to add new value.
Of course, even if people want to read about something, someone would have to actually write these posts. Exposing interest in a specific subject could be a first step towards that. I hope I’m not wasting everyone’s time.
Would you like to read more about:
Prediction markets [pollid:188]
Other economics [pollid:189]
Statistics [pollid:190]
Probability, measure theory etc. [pollid:191]
Information theory [pollid:192]
Other foundational maths (e.g. set theory) [pollid:193]
Other computer science (e.g. computation theory) [pollid:194]
Programming (not how to code, but lessons learned from programming which apply to building systems and dealing with information and being rational and a great person) [pollid:195]
Not included from the original list: mathematical logic and number theory (Eliezer is posting a sequence about this, so let’s see what he covers first).
Suggest other topics in comments.
You may be interested in this old poll.
I’d rather read about rationality if it’s all the same to you.