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What it says on the tin.

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What it says on the tin.

There are different kinds of information instutitions.

Info-generating (e.g. Science, ...)
Info-capturing (e.g. short-form? prediction markets?)
Info-sharing (e.g. postal services, newspapers, social platforms, language regulators, ...)
Info-preserving (e.g. libraries, archives, religions, Chesterton's fence-norms, ...)
Info-aggregating (e.g. prediction markets, distill.pub...)

I hadn't considered the use of info-capturing institutions until recently, and in particular how prediction sites might help with this. If you have an insight or an update, there is cheap and standardised way to make it part of the world's share knowledge.

The cheapness means you might actually do it. And the standardisation means it will interface more easily with the other parts of the info pipeline (easier to share, easier to preserve, easier to aggregate into established wisdom...)

According to the standard model of physics: information can't be created or destroyed. I don't know if science can be said to "generate" information rather than capturing it. It seems like you might be referring to a less formal notion of information, maybe "knowledge".

Are short-forms really about information and knowledge? It's my understanding that they're about short thoughts and ideas.

I've been contemplating the value alignment problem and have come to the idea that the "telos" of life is to captur... (read more)

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