If the problem is that the book is unfinished and disorganized, maybe ask an AI for help? Like, don't let it write actual text, but maybe it could help you organized the chapters in a good order, point out important parts that are missing, etc.
If publishing is the problem, ask an AI, or ask people online without telling them what kind of book this is, only that it is non-fiction.
Depending on the state of your book, could it make sense to split it into "part 1" and "part 2", so that you can release the part 1 as soon as possible, and then take some time to complete the part 2?
Are you free to choose which community to join? Will there be a rationalist community in your area?
Is a community free to reject some people who want to join it?
Could we organize the entire society as a hierarchical group of groups (of groups... as many levels as needed) like this? That would allow us to pool money for larger projects (organized by groups of higher order).
The trick is to separate your important traits from the unimportant ones, and change the unimportant ones randomly (e.g. randomly choose your new favorite color), so that you increase the psychological diversity of your movement without endangering its goals.
I think in real life most people have multiple roles, for example if you are a parent and a software developer, you talk to other parents about parenting, and to other software developers about software development, but you usually don't ask random parents for programming advice or random software developers for parenting advice. This can be modeled by people talking in different chats (like in Discord), instead of having a "friend or not friend" binary (like in Facebook or Twitter). In reality, there happens to be some overlap, like I may have a friend with whom I discuss both parenting and programming, but usually I have different friends for different roles.
Then there are also roles like "my relatives" and "my neighbors". This gets tricky, because these are not completely transitive, like someone who lives on the next street is my neighbor, but someone who lives hundred streets away is not? Similarly, a cousin of my cousin is almost a stranger to me. This is probably better modeled with the Facebook-like approach, where I connect to my cousin, he connects to his cousin, but I am not connected to the cousin's cousin? But it would still be better if the software specified the role of the connection, such as "relative" or "neighbor" instead of just a generic "friend".
We also have a concept of private and public setting, like when I am speaking at a software developers' conference, it is public speech, and when it's four neighbors drinking in a pub, it is private speech. I guess the difference is something like "does everyone know everyone else in person? or can any stranger join?". In public setting, there are the speakers and the audience; the organizer is responsible for the speakers but not for the audience, the speakers are one who talk freely, and the audience may be invited to comment but may also be silenced.
Amazing, is this the future of psychotherapy?
"Doctor, I have a problem..." "Stop talking, just give me a blood sample. Okay, your problem is X."
The tension between short-term outcomes and long-term outcomes is already there in the "winning" itself. For example, from a certain perspective, every time you don't shoplift (a reasonable amount, to keep it a misdemeanor), you are in some sense leaving money on the table.
Some people would be practically taxed for existing.
We could leverage the externality god to figure out answers to difficult questions. Often the problem is to figure out what are the second-order effects of something, and here we would get an exact number.
My problem with reducing internet usage is that I stop reading the less interesting websites first, but then what remains is the more interesting websites and that makes it even more difficult to turn off the web browser. These days it is mostly just LW and ACX, but even that is a ton of text.
That said, the corporations can make it all much worse. On LW, it is my choice whether to read something or not, but in theory if I resisted the temptation to read everything useful, the tools are there. As opposed to e.g. Facebook, which keeps my contacts hostage and pushes tons of unwanted content on me.
I wonder if I could design a tool to help me overcome the human weakness without missing out some important things, what would it be. For example, to overcome the fear of missing out, a tool could regularly download content to a local database, and only show it to me when I want. Group articles by topic. Make summaries of discussions. Make summaries of individual articles, or maybe even one long summary for the entire topic. Everything with the possibility to show the original content, but not unless I actively click it.
A sufficiently smart AI can find a way to kill humans faster than they reproduce. Humans depend on food production and distribution; if AI (which doesn't need them) disrupts those, the population will drop.
Yes. Babies are cute but also require a lot of stressful work. When they are your babies, an important part of the entire experience is knowing that this shall pass and that it is a necessary step towards having older children, which are less stressful. You also get some pleasure from watching the child grow up and gain skills, which won't happen much in a week.