(Is there a set of conditions that would convince/enable you to write posts explaining to LessWrong how to engage in meta-level Hansonian/Schellingian analyses similar to the one you did in your comment? Alternatively, do you know of any public fora whose level of general intelligence and “rationality” is greater than LessWrong’s? I can’t immediately think of any better strategies for raising the sanity waterline than you or Steve Rayhawk writing a series of posts about signaling games, focal points, implicit decision policies, social psychology, &c., and how we should use those concepts when interpreting the social world. But of course I have no idea if that would be a good use of your time or if it’d actually have any noticeable impact. Anyway it seems possible there’d be a way to raise funds to pay you to write at least a few posts, Kickstarter style, or I could try to convince Anna and Julia from the new/upcoming Center for Modern Rationality to write up some grants for you.)
Thanks for the kind words, but I wouldn’t be able to allocate enough time for such a project at the present moment. In fact, I’ve had plans to write something along these lines for quite a while, but original articles take much more time than comments. (And I’ve barely had any time even for comments in recent months.)
Also, realistically, I’m not sure how successful the product would be. I don’t have much talent for writing in an engaging way, which is further exacerbated by English not being my native language. So I think that even with the best possible outcome, not very many people would end up reading it.
Just noting that I would certainly read such a thing. You seem to have a knack for insight, regardless of your linguistics (which are anyway, if only in my opinion, quite good).
(Is there a set of conditions that would convince/enable you to write posts explaining to LessWrong how to engage in meta-level Hansonian/Schellingian analyses similar to the one you did in your comment? Alternatively, do you know of any public fora whose level of general intelligence and “rationality” is greater than LessWrong’s? I can’t immediately think of any better strategies for raising the sanity waterline than you or Steve Rayhawk writing a series of posts about signaling games, focal points, implicit decision policies, social psychology, &c., and how we should use those concepts when interpreting the social world. But of course I have no idea if that would be a good use of your time or if it’d actually have any noticeable impact. Anyway it seems possible there’d be a way to raise funds to pay you to write at least a few posts, Kickstarter style, or I could try to convince Anna and Julia from the new/upcoming Center for Modern Rationality to write up some grants for you.)
Thanks for the kind words, but I wouldn’t be able to allocate enough time for such a project at the present moment. In fact, I’ve had plans to write something along these lines for quite a while, but original articles take much more time than comments. (And I’ve barely had any time even for comments in recent months.)
Also, realistically, I’m not sure how successful the product would be. I don’t have much talent for writing in an engaging way, which is further exacerbated by English not being my native language. So I think that even with the best possible outcome, not very many people would end up reading it.
Just noting that I would certainly read such a thing. You seem to have a knack for insight, regardless of your linguistics (which are anyway, if only in my opinion, quite good).