Yoav Ravid

I'm writing a book about how to properly implement Liberalism. Working title: Mechanisms of Liberty.

My main interest is in economic and governance mechanisms, my secondary interest is education, and I'm also interested in other core LW subjects, like rationality, epistemology, ethics, evolution, and cryptography. 

I'm 24yo. I live in Israel. My hobbies include singing, playing guitar and drums, Krav Maga, Dancing (WCS), indoor boulder climbing, Juggling and hiking.

The best essay I wrote is Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory (but my book will be better 😉).

I'm also on Twitter :)

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What is the next level of rationality?

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Sounds like a question a non-human would ask :P

Maybe it can be good to have a "add post to sequence" option when you click the context menu on a post. That's more intuitive than going to the library page.

Just watched it upon your recommendation. Thanks! It is indeed a fantastic film, and a great example of (epistemic) rationality.

Would Moloch qualify as an Egregores? 

Typo: It's Prediction Markets "Fail" To *Mooch (not Moloch)

Reducing the amount of voters can be good because it increases the remaining voters' motive to become well informed instead of remaining rationally ignorant, but it won't work if people just self refrain, because the people who refrain will probably me exactly those that should remain.

Using sortition to pick a representative subset of the population to vote solves this problem.

Technically it makes sense for the nuked side to lose everything and for the nuking side to gain little. But you want to model a scenario where the sides might actually want to nuke the other side, which you have naturally between enemies, but don't have between LessWrongers unless you incentivize them somehow. So giving rewards for nuking makes sense, because people want to increase their own Karma but don't want to decrease the Karma of others.

And I think the incentives are deliberately designed such that no nukes aren't the obvious optimal equilibrium. That's what makes it an exercise in not destroying the world. If it were easy it wouldn't be much of an exercise.

This is extremely cool! good job! Looking forward to seeing how this unfolds, which will unfortunately happen mostly as I sleep (and as a citizen I hope to come out at the end of this with no change to my Karma)

Thanks. If it's indeed framed as a game then I would like to participate as well. So I pressed the button and opted in.

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