B Jacobs

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If you like analytic philosophy and mechanism design, consider checking out my blog.

How prediction markets can create harmful outcomes: a case study

B Jacobs2 Apr 2025 15:37 UTC

24 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

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Which meat to eat: CO₂ vs Animal suffering

B Jacobs6 Mar 2025 12:37 UTC

2 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

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Should we abstain from voting? (In nondeterministic elections)

B Jacobs2 Oct 2024 10:07 UTC

5 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

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When to join a respectability cascade

B Jacobs24 Sep 2024 7:54 UTC

10 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

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Solutions to problems with Bayesianism

B Jacobs31 Jul 2024 14:18 UTC

6 points

0 comments21 min readLW link

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A (paraconsistent) logic to deal with inconsistent preferences

B Jacobs14 Jul 2024 11:17 UTC

6 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

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[Aspiration-based designs] 1. Informal introduction

B Jacobs, Jobst Heitzig, Simon Fischer and Simon Dima

28 Apr 2024 13:00 UTC

44 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Resolving moral uncertainty with randomization

B Jacobs and Jobst Heitzig

29 Sep 2023 11:23 UTC

7 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Sortition Model of Moral Uncertainty

B Jacobs8 Oct 2020 17:44 UTC

9 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A Toy Model of Hingeyness

B Jacobs7 Sep 2020 17:38 UTC

16 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey Results

B Jacobs13 Jul 2020 13:53 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Hierarchy of Evidence

B Jacobs11 Jul 2020 12:54 UTC

7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] By what metric do you judge a reference class?

B Jacobs15 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey

B Jacobs11 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Bob Jacobs’s Shortform

B Jacobs1 Jun 2020 19:40 UTC

3 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we stop using the term ‘Rationalist’?

B Jacobs29 May 2020 15:11 UTC

12 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Updated Hierarchy of Disagreement

B Jacobs28 May 2020 15:57 UTC

14 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why aren’t we testing general intelligence distribution?

B Jacobs26 May 2020 16:07 UTC

25 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

A Taijitu symbol for Moloch and Slack

B Jacobs25 May 2020 20:03 UTC

91 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Meta] Three small suggestions for the LW-website

B Jacobs20 May 2020 11:18 UTC

9 points

18 comments1 min readLW link