I think about this post a lot, and sometimes in conjunction with my own post on common knowlege.
As well as it being a referent for when I think about fairness, it also ties in with how I think about LessWrong, Arbital and communal online endeavours for truth. The key line is:
For civilization to hold together, we need to make coordinated steps away from Nash equilibria in lockstep.
You can think of Wikipedia as being a set of communally editable web pages where the content of the page is constrained to be that which we can easily gain common knowledge of its truth. Wikipedia’s information is only that which comes from verifiable sources, which is how they solve this problem—all the editors don’t have to get in a room and talk forever if there’s a simple standard of truth. (I mean, they still do, but it would blow up to an impossible level if the standard were laxer than this.)
I understand a key part of the vision for Arbital was that, instead of the common standard being verifiable facts, it was instead to build a site around verifiable steps of inference, or alternatively phrased, local validity. This would allow us to walk through argument space together without knowing whether the conclusions were true or false yet.
I think about this a lot, in terms of what steps a community can make together. I maybe will write a post on it more some day. I’m really grateful that Eliezer wrote this post.
I think about this post a lot, and sometimes in conjunction with my own post on common knowlege.
As well as it being a referent for when I think about fairness, it also ties in with how I think about LessWrong, Arbital and communal online endeavours for truth. The key line is:
You can think of Wikipedia as being a set of communally editable web pages where the content of the page is constrained to be that which we can easily gain common knowledge of its truth. Wikipedia’s information is only that which comes from verifiable sources, which is how they solve this problem—all the editors don’t have to get in a room and talk forever if there’s a simple standard of truth. (I mean, they still do, but it would blow up to an impossible level if the standard were laxer than this.)
I understand a key part of the vision for Arbital was that, instead of the common standard being verifiable facts, it was instead to build a site around verifiable steps of inference, or alternatively phrased, local validity. This would allow us to walk through argument space together without knowing whether the conclusions were true or false yet.
I think about this a lot, in terms of what steps a community can make together. I maybe will write a post on it more some day. I’m really grateful that Eliezer wrote this post.