Curation notice: I already said in a different comment that this post is dope. For this curation notice let me be more specific about why I think that:
Cheerful prices seem to me like an actively useful piece of social technology, as I’ve seen them used successfully in the wild several times amongst rationalists. I’m glad there’s now a clear write-up of them.
Explaining social technology clearly in terms of microeconomics is really valuable and hard to do well. In particular, this post engages with lots of reasons that people have a hard time using basic microeconomic intuitions in their personal life, and gives advice about when it is and isn’t the right idea. I felt like I grew stronger at grokking microeconomics by reading the post, even as a person who regularly uses money and taxes and bets and trades in his personal life.
The Q&A is both thorough and very fun. Eliezer’s dialogues are always really fun, I liked when it went meta, it felt like a pretty real and honest dialogue to me.
Curation notice: I already said in a different comment that this post is dope. For this curation notice let me be more specific about why I think that:
Cheerful prices seem to me like an actively useful piece of social technology, as I’ve seen them used successfully in the wild several times amongst rationalists. I’m glad there’s now a clear write-up of them.
Explaining social technology clearly in terms of microeconomics is really valuable and hard to do well. In particular, this post engages with lots of reasons that people have a hard time using basic microeconomic intuitions in their personal life, and gives advice about when it is and isn’t the right idea. I felt like I grew stronger at grokking microeconomics by reading the post, even as a person who regularly uses money and taxes and bets and trades in his personal life.
The Q&A is both thorough and very fun. Eliezer’s dialogues are always really fun, I liked when it went meta, it felt like a pretty real and honest dialogue to me.
Thanks for the post Eliezer :)