Noah Smith gets a lot of Devil’s Advocate points in this interview with Larry Summers. Larry scores a clear Open Mind point with this response:
Noah Smith gets a lot of Devil’s Advocate points in this interview with Larry Summers. Larry scores a clear Open Mind point with this response:
Fantasy Intellectuals is a great idea, and having Teams is good. With “owners” being the ones who choose the team, and propose points to be tested. I like “promoters” as an identifier of their job – this is actually the volunteer work they do for the chosen intellectual.
I think 8 categories for scoring points is too many – a few should be combined.
Having just one referee is a HUGE negative – it’s unsustainable. Glad you did it, and did such a fantastic job at it, but there needs to be a way to get others to do more point-verification work.
The very-low effort social networks use “likes” of some kind, which are easily given and tracked. And what makes Twitter, especially, but also Facebook and even Reddit so lousy.
What is needed is for the promoters to do more evaluation of suggested points by the other promoters. The May Beta version should not be considered stable until this referee problem is better solved.
Thanks to infovores for link to https://www.metarational.net/ with lots of Think Tanks and other ways of organizing info. In Europe I like the UK based Adam Smith Institute (very Libertarian) https://www.metarational.net/lens/asi